Question

In West Bengal, land reform measures have helped in _____.

• A. increasing poverty
• B. equal poverty
• C. reducing poverty
• D. uneven poverty
• E. none of the above

Answer 1

Answer: (C)

reducing poverty

In West Bengal, land reforms measures have helped in reducing poverty. It aims at the redis­tribution of land-ownership in favour of the culti­vating class (so as to make them feel themselves a part of the rural life), regulation and rationalisa­tion of rent, improving the size of farms and pro­viding security of tenure in order to transfer in traditional agriculture and raise cultivators to new heights.