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For the first time ever, the Land Rights Initiative team at the Centre for Policy Research has created a database of over 1000 colonial and post colonial central and state laws for a geographically representative sample of eight states, namely, Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Meghalaya, Punjab, and Telangana. From land reforms to land acquisition, forest laws to laws applicable to Scheduled Areas, from laws promoting and regulating urban development to laws dealing with evacuee, enemy, ancestral and religious property, this vast legal apparatus governs the lives of ordinary citizens and their interactions with each other and the state. This panel will present findings from an ongoing study at CPR Land Rights Initiative that tries to map the maze of existing legal regulation on land, with a view to streamlining existing laws, and thereby shedding light on how to prevent and resolve the conflicts they necessitate.

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This panel is an attempt to inquire into the question of urban commons from different entry points- land governance, tourism, environment and real estate without necessarily romanticising it. We hope to collectively open up the different ways in which urban commons negotiate with the city and interrogate what place they occupy and in what form, in our urban futures.

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Panellists will discuss various issues related to the rights of women farmers in India. In addition, they will also present the demands of women farmers, including the passage of a law on women farmers based on The Women Farmers’ Entitlement Bill 2011.

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This session jointly organized by NRMC-CLG and Centurion University, Odisha will deliberate on the experience and scope of engaging rural youth trained in digital mapping tools, as licensed surveyors to address massive land and forest rights mapping requirements in rural and tribal India. The idea emanates from the scope in Odisha and Bihar’s Special Survey and Settlement Rules, which allows the provision of not only use of digital tools in land survey also the option of licensed surveyors.

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The failure of land reform processes are bound to escalate violence and unrest in the country. The intricacies and overlapping nature of laws and policies don’t necessarily and automatically ensure access, control and ownership of the people and communities over land and natural resources they depend on for their livelihoods.

The session will focus on analysis of the existing policies relating to land governance from dependent communities’ perspective with People Centered Land Governance as the focus. The key areas to cover under each policy discussion are provisions, opportunities, limitations and recommendations.

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The session and panellists are expected to through some light on designing a set of specific, achievable and grounded recommendations and policy engagement strategies that could be taken to newly formed governments in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh, Odisha, Telengana, Andhra Pradesh and Jharkhand by mid 2019. Post ILDC, a group of players would work together to sustain the impact of a collective process at multiple levels and forums in the form of multi-layered campaigns..

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The focus will be on discussing what are the issues and challenges emerging under this regimes in the contemporary development context. These regimes were evolved in response to local contexts and were able to ensure sustainable land use contributing to culture and livelihoods effectively. However, there are many challenges emerging in response to development pathways around investment as well as conservation that are being now brought in.

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There is an urgent need to learn from recent experience within India in modernizing land information systems to develop viable and replicable models for improving and maintaining both textual and spatial records. The process of digitalizing textual records in various Indian states has pointed to several best practice principles, making the process transparent and results broadly accessible. The state of Andhra Pradesh for example is now using the blockchain technology to make land records tamper-proof. Another important best practice is the use of communityled, multi-sourced inventory processes to correct the mistakes in the manual records before they are computerized.

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Adoption of advanced technology to establish a robust system to monitor the rights recognition process. This session will provide an overview on usage cloud based data collection tool to monitor rights recognition process and post recognition process.

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SAFBIN, while engaging with small farmers and planning policy dialogue series, sees a compelling need in organising the second event of the series around land tenure reform. ILDC2019, provides an excellent convergence platform to jointly organize this event in partnership with Caritas India, ICRISAT and Centre for Agricultural Policy. This Policy Dialogue seeks to reiterate the land tenure dimensions of small farming in the context of South Asian Policy Landscape and engage with policy makers, researchers, practitioners and donors on the need, challenges and options to mainstream smallholder agenda..

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In this panel we wish to discuss the divergent needs between openness and protection of land data in India with
land and data experts coming with rich local and global experiences based on the following questions:

1. In how far do we agree or not that data technology providers are “neutral platforms” in the land governance scene?
2. Where should land data be stored; and what are the implications for protecting and/or sharing such data?
3. What kind of data, when and how should it be made publicly available online; and who should be involved in these decisions?
4. How can we avoid forgetting the people and their relationship to land behind our hopes for and worries about the data?
5. How can we learn, what land data is being collected and processed, how its derivates are used and for whose/what purposes?
6. Because of the pervasiveness of digital data technologies and increasing amounts of data, the issues outlined above challenge just about every policy domain. But how do these challenges play out specifically in the domain of land governance given that property and land rights are social constructs; and the various relationships between people and land have been governed by social and statutory institutions in comparatively bounded jurisdictional territories? What then do we need to specifically focus on in future with respect to the openness/protection tension in the domain of land governance?

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The session will discuss the overarching status of women and land rights in India, followed by other panelists focusing on discussing the aspects of commons land, forest land, salt pan workers, fisheries and farmers from women’s perspective. The discussion thread would be role of women in above mentioned areas, issues they face and good practices in the respective areas of intervention of the panellists.

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• Present background on pastoral communities and their rights over land and forest resources
•  Key provisions in FRA addressing rights of pastoral communities
•  Status of implementation of FRA provisions relating to pastoral communities and key implementation issues
•  Initiatives taken by pastoral communities and support organizations for claiming CFR rights; examples of Banni and Bara Bangal in HP.
•  Way forward and strategies for addressing rights of pastoral communities

The panel will include presentations by Tushar Dash, Ramesh Bhatti (Sahjeevan), Akshay Jasrotia and Amit Rathi (CfP).

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