Subject(s): Land reform -- Poverty -- land and conflicts, Forms of utilisation of land -- Concentration of land and poverty : monopolies of land in forest and fisheries -- Security of title through maintenance and updation of land resources : Land record department (LAS) -- land distribution as a tool of poverty reduction : Ceiling surplus land, Government vested land, Programme in Urban areas and in Peri-Urban areas -- Recording of sharecroppers on land : Types of Tenure system, Barga operation in West Bengal, Decollectivisation of land, Customary rights and privatisation, Fisheries, Forestry -- Role of self governance units and peasants organisations : pachayat raj institutions (PRI's), Peasant's organisations, NGO's, Chuar Armed Uprising 1799, Kol Uprising 1831-32, Santhal rebellion 1855-57, Pagal panthi movement 1825-33, Rising of the Ramosis, Poligars uprising, Tebhaga Movement -- Legal empowerment and legal aid : Tribunalisation of land related cases -- Developmental support to the implementation of land reforms : Employment generation schemes, Climate change, Restoring barren lands, Development of pastureland near sea belt, Credit availability, Restoration of land, Agitation against proposed industrial hub- nandigram West Bengal -- Strengthening land administration system : Computerisation of land records, Property records in Urban India, land records department (LAS) with registration department , Conversion of land, capacity building -- Concrete approach towards land reforms : Thematic area, land use planning, management and taxation , Public provision of land information, Local self government , Financial aid for cultivation, Co-operative farming, Crop-credit for cultivation, Co-operative farming, Restoration of land for housing