Implementation of the Agriculture Lands Ceiling Act (ALC Act) in Gujarat

Amid serious allegations of poor implementation of the Agriculture Lands Ceiling Act (ALC Act) in Gujarat, the Revenue Department has appointed three nodal officers of deputy secretary rank to ascertain the actual scenario of the allocation of surplus land to landless farmers in state under the law.

The Revenue Department has distributed all the districts in three zones and for each zone a deputy secretary rank officer has been appointed as a nodal officer who will ascertain the actual scenario of the implementation of the ALC Act in Gujarat. In the first zone, Gandhinagar, Mehsana, Banas-kantha, Patan, Sabarkantha, Aravalli, Ahmedabad, Anand, Kheda and Mahisagar have been included. Deputy Secretary (Land Acquisition) of the Revenue department will be nodal officer for the zone. The second zone includes Bharuch, Narmada, Surat, Tapi, Chhota Udepur, Valsad, Vadodara, Navsari, the Dangs, Dahod and the Panchmahals with Deputy Secretary (Urban Land Ceiling) as nodal officer. Deputy Secretary (Land Reforms) will be a nodal officer for Amreli, Bhavnagar, Porbandar, Rajkot, Surendranagar, Somnath, Botad, Morbi, Devbhumi Dwarka, Jamnagar, Junagadh and Kutch districts.