Sumit Chaturvedi

Stories by Sumit Chaturvedi

Land reforms fail, only 5% of India's farmers control 32% land

Rediff.com 18 May 2016

The average land given to the rural landless is small and falling, from 0.95 acres in 2002 to 0.88 acres in 2015 - a 7.4 per cent drop over 13 years-and a slowdown is evident in the process of taking land away from rich landlords, the RTI data reveal.

UP's free-housing mess a national warning

Rediff.com 23 Jun 2015

With nearly a million identified slums, UP urgently requires housing for the poor