UPSC Agriculture – Chapter 18: Land Reforms in India (20 MCQs)
UPSC Agriculture – Chapter 18: Land Reforms in India (20 MCQs) – 20 questions, subject: Agriculture. Every question has the correct answer with a one-line explanation; tap "Show Answer". Free practice for TNPSC, UPSC, SSC, Bank and RRB exams – Shanmugam IAS Academy, Coimbatore.
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Which Constitutional Amendment required that land within the ceiling limit held under a person's personal cultivation be acquired only on payment of compensation at market value?
Correct Answer: C [Seventeenth Amendment, 1964]
Explanation:
the Seventeenth Amendment widened Article 31A and added this market-value compensation proviso.
Under the ryotwari system, land revenue was paid by:
Correct Answer: C [the cultivator directly to the State]
Explanation:
Under ryotwari, introduced by Munro and Read, each cultivator (ryot) paid land revenue directly to the State without an intermediary.
Which State's land reform law of 1969, in force from 1970, abolished tenancy, made tenants owners and gave homestead rights to hutment dwellers?
Correct Answer: B [Kerala (now Keralam)]
Explanation:
the Kerala Land Reforms (Amendment) Act, 1969 abolished tenancy and gave homestead rights to hutment dwellers.
Which of the following was NOT a recommendation of the Congress Agrarian Reforms Committee (1949)?
Correct Answer: C [Corporate farming on large mechanised estates]
Explanation:
The Committee favoured cooperative farming, not corporate farming on large estates.
The Unique Land Parcel Identification Number (ULPIN), given to each land parcel under the Digital India Land Records Modernisation Programme, is also called:
Correct Answer: A [Bhu-Aadhaar]
Explanation:
ULPIN, a unique number for each land parcel, is also called Bhu-Aadhaar.
In I. R. Coelho v State of Tamil Nadu (2007), the Supreme Court held that:
Correct Answer: D [laws added to the Ninth Schedule after 24 April 1973 can be reviewed for violating the basic structure]
Explanation:
In I. R. Coelho (2007) the Court held that laws placed in the Ninth Schedule after 24 April 1973 are open to basic-structure review.
Operation Barga (1978) in West Bengal mainly aimed to:
Correct Answer: D [record the names of sharecroppers and give them security]
Explanation:
Operation Barga (1978) recorded the names of bargadars (sharecroppers), giving them security of tenure and a legal share of the crop.
The Bhoodan movement began at:
Correct Answer: C [Pochampally]
Explanation:
on 18 April 1951.
Under the national ceiling guidelines of 1972, the highest ceiling limit applied to:
Correct Answer: C [dry land]
Explanation:
ceilings were graded by land quality; dry land had the highest ceiling, up to 54 acres.
Consider the following statements:
1. The 1972 ceiling guidelines made the family the unit for ceilings.
2. Ceilings were graded by land quality.
3. Ceiling laws allowed no exemptions in any State.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Correct Answer: B [1 and 2 only]
Explanation:
The 1972 guidelines made the family the unit and graded ceilings by land quality; exemptions such as plantations still existed.
Assertion (A): Tenancy in many States went underground after tenancy laws were passed.
Reason (R): Landowners shifted to oral, concealed leases to avoid giving tenants rights.
Correct Answer: A [Both A and R are true, and R is the correct explanation of A]
Explanation:
Tenancy went underground precisely because landowners shifted to oral, concealed leases, so R correctly explains A.
The Model Agricultural Land Leasing Act, 2016 was prepared by:
Correct Answer: A [NITI Aayog]
Explanation:
NITI Aayog's Model Agricultural Land Leasing Act, 2016 was prepared by an expert committee led by T. Haque.
SVAMITVA mainly provides:
Correct Answer: C [property cards for inhabited rural areas mapped with drones]
Explanation:
SVAMITVA uses drones to map inhabited (abadi) village areas and gives households property cards usable as collateral.
Under the land acquisition law of 2013, the consent required for a private project is that of:
Correct Answer: D [80 per cent]
Explanation:
The LARR Act, 2013 requires the consent of 80 per cent of affected families for private projects (70 per cent for PPP).
The Forty-fourth Amendment (1978) made the right to property a:
Correct Answer: A [constitutional right under Article 300A]
Explanation:
The Forty-fourth Amendment removed the right to property from Fundamental Rights and made it a constitutional right under Article 300A.
A "conclusive" land title differs from India's present system because it:
Correct Answer: B [is guaranteed by the State]
Explanation:
the Torrens system.
Arrange the following in chronological order:
1. Operation Barga
2. Kumarappa Committee report
3. Start of the Bhoodan movement
4. Launch of SVAMITVA
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
Correct Answer: C [2-3-1-4]
Explanation:
Kumarappa 1949, Bhoodan 1951, Operation Barga 1978, SVAMITVA 2020.
The mahalwari system, in which the village community paid revenue jointly, was introduced in 1822 under:
Correct Answer: B [Holt Mackenzie]
Explanation:
Holt Mackenzie's Regulation VII of 1822 introduced the mahalwari settlement, in which the village community paid revenue jointly.
Which State transferred land to tillers without compensation under a 1950 law?
Correct Answer: A [Jammu and Kashmir]
Explanation:
the Big Landed Estates Abolition Act, 1950.
Article 31A of the Constitution protects:
Correct Answer: D [laws for the acquisition of estates and other agrarian reforms from challenge under Articles 14 and 19]
Explanation:
inserted by the First Amendment (1951).
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