Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Sociology

Chapter

Social Change and Development in India: Change and Development in Rural Society

Question:
Which of the following Indian government introduced land reforms as a policy to solve the inequality in the rural regions?
Options:
The Jawaharlal Nehru government
The Indira Gandhi Government
Lal Bahadur Shashtri government
Chandrashekar Government
Correct Answer:
The Jawaharlal Nehru government
Explanation:
Nehru government felt that a major reform in the agrarian structure, and especially in the landholding system and the distribution of land, was necessary if agriculture were to progress. From the 1950s to the 1970s, a series of land reform laws were passed – at the national level as well as in the states – that were intended to bring about these changes