Describe the main features of Bhoodan-Gramdan.
Main features of Bhoodan-Gramdan are as mentioned below : Mahatma Gandhi declared Vinoba Bhave as his spiritual heir. Vinoba Bhave was one of the votaries of Gandhi’s concept of gram swarajya, After Gandhi, he undertook padyatra to spread Gandhiji’s message in the country. During his padyatra in Andhra Pradesh, poor landless villagers demanded some land for their economic well-being. He promised them to talk to the government but suddenly one Shri Ramchandra Reddy offered 80 acres of land to be distributed among 80 landless villagers. This was the beginning of ‘Bhoodan’. Thereafter, some zamindars owners of many villages offered to distribute some villages among the landless. Thus Bhoodan became Gramdan. It may be added that some land-owilfers chose to give some part of their land to the poor farmers due to the fear of land ceiling act. This Bhoodan-Gramdan movement is also known as Blood-less Revolution.
