Bhoodan Movement:
On 18 April 1951, a piece of land was donated in a small village of Pochampally in Telangana. This was the beginning of the Bhoodan Movement. The aim of this movement was to promote the ownership of fertile land by removing the inequality of land ownership. Under this movement, Vinoba Bhave was urging landowners to donate one-sixth of their total land. People throughout the country supported this movement. A meaningful effort was made to remove the anomaly of ownership by distributing the donated land among the landless.
The success of Bhoodan:
Vinoba Bhave's Bhoodan appeal became meaningful. After doing padayatra across the country, he accepted the donation of lakh acres of land. He started the work of distributing about one-third of this land to deprived class and tribal landless people. On Vmoba's appeal, Bhoodan was started in the Nagaur district of Rajasthan and the State Government also passed the Milage Donation Act, 1971.