WEST BENGAL- Operation Barga

WEST BENGAL Operation Barga Asim Mukhopadhyay THE West Bengal government's Operation Barga (OB), or programme for rapid recording of sharecroppers, completed its first year in August. The OB had raised high hopes among the peasantry. Unlike earlier land reforms, including those of pre-independence days, it seemed to be a better thought out and determined attack on agrarian problems and seemed to have the sincere support of the parties in power.