Correct Answer - Option 2 : Vinoba Bhave
For a country that is demographically young, this bhoodan took place as a movement when India was just four years old. Then, it meant a gift from landed people, assumed rich, to the landless.
Bhoodan Movement was started by Mahatma Gandhi’s disciple Vinoba Bhave in April 1951.
- Born spontaneously at an evening meeting in an Andhra Pradesh village, the movement saw landowners gifting land to the landless.
- Within six years, about 1.9 million ha were collected. Over the next two decades, the movement took shape of a law called the Bhoodan Act and put the government in charge of distributing land from the land bank.
- The movement later transformed into the Gramdan (village in gift) movement, under which the whole or a major part of village land was donated by not less than 75 percent of the residents for equal distribution among all village residents.
- Tribal areas, currently under vigorous land acquisition, were major participants in the Gramdan movement.
- Both the movements died eventually but left behind the land bank.
Thus, we can conclude that Vinoba Bhave had started the Budan movement.
