Ministry of Land & Land Reforms (West Bengal)

Ministry of Land & Land Reforms

Department overview
Preceding Department	Ministry of Land & Land Revenue
Jurisdiction	Government of West Bengal
Headquarters	Writers' Building, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Minister responsible	Mamata Banerjee, Cabinet Minister
Deputy Minister responsible	Chandrima Bhattacharya, Minister of State
Website	Department of Land and Land Reforms

The Department of Land & Land Reforms & Refugee Relief & Rehabilitation of West Bengal is a West Bengal government department.[1] It is a ministry mainly responsible for the formulation of policies, Acts, Rules and procedures relating to land matters, namely, land records and survey, land revenue, land reforms, land use and management of government lands.[1]

Ministry

The ministry also headed the department of requisition and acquisition of land as well as their implementation by way of preparation and revision of Records of right, including recording of sharecroppers (bargadars); vesting and distribution of ceiling surplus land; determination of the requirement of land by tea gardens, factories etc.; mutation of ownership and conversion of classification of land; assessment and collection of land revenue and cesses; requisition and acquisition of land administration of the Calcutta Thika and other Tenancies and Lands (Acquisition & Regulation) Act, 1981, the West Bengal Premises Tenancy Act, 1997, the West Bengal Public Demand Recovery, 1913 and other Acts. The ministerial team at the MHA is headed by the Cabinet Minister for Land & Land Reforms, who may or may not be supported by Ministers of State. Civil servants are assigned to them to manage the ministers' office and ministry.[1]

Ministerial History

Previously, Ministry of Land & Land Reforms was known as Ministry of Land & Land Revenue, and Hare Krishna Konar held the first position during the United Front rule from 1967 to 1970. After the 1977 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, the title of the office was renamed to Ministry of Land & Land Reforms, and the Land Revenue department merged into this department and was held by Benoy Choudhury until his resignation in 1991. From 1991, Abdur Razzak Molla held this position till 2011.

List of Ministers of Land & Land Reforms

No.	Name	Portrait	Term of office		Party		Chief Minister
1	Benoy Choudhury		21 June 1977	24 April 1991	Communist Party of India (Marxist)		Jyoti Basu
2	Abdur Razzak Molla	–	24 April 1991	6 November 2000
			6 November 2000	13 May 2011			Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
3	Mamata Banerjee		13 May 2011	Incumbent	Trinamool Congress		Herself

See also

• Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (West Bengal)
• Ministry of Information & Cultural Affairs (West Bengal)
• Department of North Bengal Development

References

1. Official Departmental Website of the Ministry of Land & Land Reforms Archived 7 April 2014 at the Wayback Machine Government of West Bengal (2011-05-25)