Recover & Protection of Land from Grabbers through Strengthening Peoples Organization (PO).
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Twenty years of
legal struggle to
obtain ownership
of public ‘khas’
land In 1994, the landless villagers of Rajarampur in Dinajpur
district, Bangladesh, applied for access to public ‘khas’
land (government owned land available for allocation
according to government priorities) that had been lying
fallow for years. In 1995 they occupied 115 acres of this
fallow land. The occupation was contested by local elites,
The village of Rampur, in the Dinajpur district of
Bangladesh, was established on public ‘khas’ land in 1953
by landless farmers. However, in the following decades,
different groups of local elites claimed the land and tried
to evict the villagers. Thanks to support from CDA, the
villagers resisted the harassment and false claims. In 2000
the court quashed the false claims; in 2001 the village was
beneficiary to a governmental land distribution scheme;
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