Land Laws (including Tenure and Tenancy System)

Unit I

Indian Systems of Law and relation in real property · concept of property and Constitutional Provisions · Article 31 and 300 · Land Reforms · basic concept of Gandhian Philosophy · Land to the Tiller Policy · Indian Development and Socialistic Society · Land Reforms · Ideology and Practice

Unit II

Land Acquisition · Public Purpose · Compensation and Remedies · modern Economic Development and importance of real Property · Land Conservation · Land Utilisation

Unit III

Protection of Tribal Land, Forest Land, Wet Land etc

• Indian Forest Act 1927 and Forest Conservation Act, 1980

Unit IV

Land Reforms Legislation · Fixity of tenure, resumption, restoration · nature of tenant's rights · purchase of landlord's right by cultivating tenant · prohibition for future tenancies · Kudikidappu rights and liabilities · Restrictions on ownership and possession of land in excess of ceiling areas · rural and urban utilization and land development · conservation of Government Lands

Unit V

Element of environment and land laws · Protection of tribal land · forest land · wetlands · agricultural land · lands of ecological significance · rural and urban land utilisation and land development

• Indian Forest Act 1927 and Forest Conservation Act, 1980