Who is known for the “Bhoodan Movement”?

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answered Mar 2, 2022 by SiddhiSomnath (239k points)
selected Mar 2, 2022 by Anuragk

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Correct Answer - Option 4 : Vinoba Bhave

The correct answer is Vinoba Bhave.

Bhoodan Movement was started by Mahatma Gandhi’s disciple Vinoba Bhave in April 1951.
It was started from Pochampali in Telangana.
It is also known as the Bloodless Revolution was a voluntary land reform movement in India.
Bhoodan ('bhoo' means land; 'Dhan' means donation) it's a moment aimed to stop landlords to acquire more land.
They did padayatra and asked rich peasants to give 1/6th of their land so as to collect 50 million acres of land, but despite their best efforts, they could only collect 8.7 lakh acres of land, which they distributed among the poor and the landless.

Central and State governments had provided the necessary assistance to Vinoba Bhave.
Bhoodan gave way to the Gramdan movement which began in 1952.
The objective of the Gramdan movement was to persuade landowners and leaseholders in each village to renounce their land rights and all the lands would become the property of a village association for egalitarian redistribution and joint cultivation.