What is land ceiling?

Land ceiling meaning is a fixed area of land that a person or a family can hold. Let us understand where this land ceiling term came from in India and other important keys of land ceiling.

• Land ceiling means fixing the specific area that a person can own in a particular state.

• Through this rule many landless farmers got the opportunity to buy their own land parcel.

• Under land ceiling rule if a person owns the land more than the ceiling limit, then the extra land will be taken away from him by the Government of India.

• If a person has reached the land ceiling limit that person can not buy more land.

• In Jammu & Kashmir Land ceiling was fully implemented

   and by the middle of 1955 about 230,000 acres of surplus land had been handed over to landless farmers, that too without having to pay any compensation.

   

• In West Bengal the cultivation land increased from 3%

  of total cultivated land in India to 25% after the distribution of cultivation land.

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land ceiling meaning is clear by reading this answer.