IMSE is tackling the second generation problems of land reforms in West Bengal, specifically focused on the following questions:

■ Has land effectively been given to the tiller?

■ Has there been a reduction in landholdings by higher castes?

■ Have credit-providing institutions been established for smallholders, sharecroppers, thus reducing the role of traditional money lenders?

■ How far have land titles to women, which exist in law, been implemented in practice?

■ Whether and how conversion of lands into Special Economic Zones (SEZ) made land-reform programmes ineffective?

Study of land rights of tribal people:

The issue of land rights of forest dwellers and other tribal groups is also a crucial concern that IMSE is studying and documenting to inform its policy advocacy work with the State governments.