The Bhoodan movement was initiated in 1951 by Vinoba Bhave, a follower of Mahatma Gandhi, to address inequality in land ownership. The movement involved persuading large landowners to donate land, termed "bhoodan", which would then be redistributed to landless farmers. At its peak, the movement collected over 4 million acres of land in the early 1950s, especially in northern India. However, it slowed down after 1956, as donations decreased and issues arose regarding the quality and sufficiency of land allotments for farmers' needs. While well-intentioned, the Bhoodan movement ultimately did not achieve large-scale, lasting reform of land ownership.

1. INTRODUCTION
• Initiated by – Acharya Vinoba Bhave, a trusted
follower of Mahatma Gandhi in April, 1951.
Started at – Telengana in Hyderabad
Bhoodan movement had two components:
Achrya Vinoba Bhave
BHOODAN MOVEMENT
Collect land as gift from zamindars and rich
farmers.
Redistribute that gifted or donated land among the
landless farmers.

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To bring a social order based on equality of opportunities by ensuring balanced
economic distribution.
Power should be decentralised from village to village.
Everybody should have a right on land and property.
There should be no distribution in the matter of wages etc.

3. ACTIVITY
o On 18 April, 1951 at Pochampalli village Vinoba was
offered 100 acres of land by Ram Chandra Reddy after
he appealed to the assembled villagers in his prayer
meeting to do something for the Harijans of the village.
o On 19 April, 1952 he termed the previous gift as bhoodan
and realized that bhoodan could provide a solution to the
problem of extreme inequality in the country.
o Thus,Vinoba and his followers undertook pad-yatra from
village to village and persuaded the landowners to
donate at least one-sixth of their land bhoodan for
distribution among the landless and the land poor.

4. o He secured 12,000 acres land in bhoodan in 51 days emboldened Vinoba to continue the mission and finally
prompted him to resolve on Gandhi's birthday in 1951 to collect fifty million acres of land for the landless from the
whole country by 1957.
ACTIVITY
Bhoodan movement in odisha
Gopabahdhu Choudhury Rama Devi
o Bhoodan programme was started in Odisha on 7
January, 1952 by Gopabandhu Choudhury and his wife
Rama Devi.
o About 2100 acer land was collected.
Gramdan
o Gramdan an offshoot of Bhoodan programme, which was
started in1952 where the entire population of the village
donated their land in bhoodan.

5. Advantages Disadvantages
• Initial year of this movement was achieved
success in northern India especially in Uttar
pradesh and Bihar.
• By 1956 ,4 million acer of land collected as
donation.
• Landlords were under no completion to give their
land. This movement was unofficial and voluntary
movement.
• Promote Gandhian philosophy of trusteeship that
all land belongs to God.
• After 1956 this movement was slow down.
• Village landowners demanded money for
allotment .
• Bhoodan created starvation among landless
people.
• Some big landowners donate their land which
was unfit for cultivation.
• Allotment of land were not sufficient because
poor farmer need fertilizer, pesticides, insecticide

6. CONCLUSION
• Although concept and idea was really
good but this was not a successful
movement, but still we can say some
landless people got some land despite
of failure.