Pakistan Land and Property: Difference between revisions

Matters concerning the ownership, acquisition, distribution, and taxation of land are, by provision of the Indian constitution, under the jurisdiction of the states. Because of the diverse attitudes and approaches that would result from such freedom if there were no general guidelines, the central government has at times laid down directives dealing with the main problems affecting the ownership and use of land. It remains for the state governments to implement the central government guidelines. Such implementation has varied widely among the states.

=== Landholding Categories ===

India is a land of small farms, of peasants cultivating their ancestral lands mainly by family labor and, despite the spread of tractors in the 1980s, by pairs of bullocks. About 50 percent of all operational holdings in 1980 were less than 1 hectare in size (an area equal to 100 acres or 10,000 square meters). About 19 percent fell in the one-to-two hectare range, 16 percent in the two-to-four hectare range, and 11 percent in the four-to-ten hectare range. Only 4 percent of the working farms encompassed 10 or more hectares.