Ministry of Land & Land Revenue (West Bengal)
| Department overview | |
|---|---|
| Formed | 1 March 1967 |
| Dissolved | March 16, 1970 |
| Superseding Department | |
| Jurisdiction | Government of West Bengal |
| Headquarters | Writers' Building, Kolkata, West Bengal, India |
The Department of Land & Land Revenue of West Bengal was a West Bengal government department. It was a ministry mainly responsible for the formulation of policies, acts, rules, and procedures relating to land matters, namely, land records and surveys, land revenue, land reforms, land use, and management of government lands.[1]
Ministry
[edit]The ministry also headed the department of requisition and acquisition of land as well as their implementation by way of preparation and revision of Records of right, including recording of sharecroppers (bargadars); vesting and distribution of ceiling surplus land; determination of the requirement of land by tea gardens, factories etc.[2]
List of Land & Land Revenue
[edit]| No. | Name | Portrait | Term of office | Party | Chief Minister | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hare Krishna Konar | 
|
1 March 1967 | 21 November 1967 | Communist Party of India (Marxist) (United Front) | Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee | |
| – | Vacant | – | 21 November 1967 | 25 February 1969 | N/A | N/A | |
| (1) | Hare Krishna Konar |
|
25 February 1969 | 16 March 1970 | Communist Party of India (Marxist) (United Front) | Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee | |
See also
[edit]- Deputy Chief Minister of West Bengal
- Ministry of Information & Cultural Affairs (West Bengal)
- Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (West Bengal)
References
[edit]- ^ "Remembrance:konar". ganashakti.tripod.com. Retrieved 5 November 2024.
- ^ Amrita Basu (1 October 1994). Two Faces of Protest: Contrasting Modes of Women's Activism in India. University of California Press. pp. 31–32. ISBN 978-0-520-08919-8.