Bare Act
The Tamil Nadu Bhoodan Yagna (Amendment) Act, 1964
The Tamil Nadu Bhoodan Yagna (Amendment) Act, 1964 governs the legal framework for voluntary land donations made under the Bhoodan Yagna movement initiated by Shri Acharya Vinoba Bhave in Tamil Nadu. It establishes the Tamil Nadu State Bhoodan Yagna Board to receive, hold, manage, and distribute donated lands to landless agricultural workers, cooperative societies, and Sarvodaya Panchayats. The Act provides formal procedures for declaring land gifts, investigating legal titles, resolving public objections through designated Inquiry Officers, and registering land transfers without registration fees. For ordinary citizens and rural farmers, this law ensures that voluntary gifts of private land are legally validated, administrative records are updated, and landless agricultural households receive secure allotments for cultivation and village community welfare.
- 1. Short title, extent and commencement
- 2. Definitions
- 3. Establishment and incorporation of State Board
- 4. Constitution of State Board
- 5. Term of office
- 6. Disqualification for appointment as Chairman or member
- 7. Resignation of Chairman or member
- 8. Removal of Chairman or member
- 9. Filling up of casual vacancies
- 10. Dissolution or supersession of State Board
- 11. Vesting of land in State Board
- 12. Secretary and other staff
- 13. Meetings of State Board
- 14. Acts of State Board not to be invalidated by informality
- 15. Local Committees
- 16. Donations of land
- 17. Hearing of objections
- 17-A. Permission to exchange the donated land
- 18. Partition of land forming part of a holding
- 21. State Board Fund
- 22. Application of assets
- 26. Possession and management of Gramdan lands
- 28. Power to make rules
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