Articles by M D Nalapat

December 17, 1977 scale in tribal areas, together with restricted private trade.
Anyway the Congress and other parties will be put to test on this issue. Do they really desire to check the exploitation of adivasis by private traders? If so, what are their methods? They must take a clear stand and stop repeating the empty slogans of justice to adivasis. Slogans cannot be.a substitute for action.

tes just four pages only to the discus- stim of ceiling on urban property

August 19, 1972 culturally backward areas. Secondly, even Gujarat state, which has inherited experience in land reforms as well as relatively better organised administration from the erstwhile Bombay state, could not impart the benefit of tenancy abolition to a large section of the tenantry. Of the cases brought before the tribunals, nearly 47 per cent, covering about half the land under dispute, were denied tenancies

giving ample warning. As a corollary, collieries which do not act purposefully can be merged or taken over, without further warning.
(5) Public financial institutions should help collieries liberally, but they must retain voting rights and demand follow-up of the steps promised at the time of taking loans.