Halting land grabbing by local elite through sustained legal action
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Date of publication
May 2019
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The village of Rampur, in the Dinajpur district of
Bangladesh, was established on public ‘khas’ land in 1953
by landless farmers. However, in the following decades,
different groups of local elites claimed the land and tried
to evict the villagers. Thanks to support from CDA, the
villagers resisted the harassment and false claims. In 2000
the court quashed the false claims; in 2001 the village was
beneficiary to a governmental land distribution scheme;
and in 2008-2009 the villagers were awarded formal
ownership of the land.