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Volume : III, Issue : IX, October - 2013 The Heyday's Of Gramdan Movement In India With Special Reference To Odisha Sarat Parida Published By : Laxmi Book Publication Abstract : Gramdan(village-gift) an offshoot of Bhoodan programme which created great excitement and curiosity among the people in the country in mid-fifties of the last century was a voluntary non-official movement. The Bhoodan movement originally conceived and started by Acharya Vinoba Bhave passed through several stages. Beginning with an appeal for gifts of portions of land, it took the form of a movement asking for one-sixth share in holdings and then widened into Gramdan calling for complete surrender of property rights in land in favour of village community. The programme gave a new spurt to the waning Bhoodan movement in the sixties and showed promising signs of success in certain pockets of the country especially in the district of Koraput of Odisha. However this programme too like the earlier Bhodan programme could not sustain its momentum in the long run and became a neglected activity towards the seventies, thus faded from the public concern. This paper intends to examine the progress of the movement in the country so as to assess its efficacy and potentiality in solving one of the basic problems afflicting Indian society, the land problem, through voluntary action involving the masses. Keywords : Article : Cite This Article : Sarat Parida, (2013). The Heyday's Of Gramdan Movement In India With Special Reference To Odisha. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. III, Issue. IX, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/3190.pdf References : - Dhadda, Siddharaj. Gramdan: The Latest Phase of Bhoodan, Kashi, 1957, p. 1.
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