Landless people will be offered half a Bigha to construct their houses.
As a result,
44 new wells were dug and 250 Bigha of additional land became irrigable.
Inspired by Italian neo-realistic cinema, he made Do Bigha Zamin after watching Vittorio De Sica's
Bicycle Thieves 1948.
She now lives in Kamlapur village of
Sagar Island where the government has provided her family 1.5 Bigha(0.24 hectare) land.
She now lives in Kamlapur village on Sagar
Island where the government has provided her family 0.24 hectares(or 1.5 Bigha) of land.
Fifty-one-year-old Ashok Mandal of
Bankim Nagar claimed to have lost seven Bigha(1.1 hectare)
land in 2014 when the sea engulfed a large chunk of the village land.
Fifty-one-year-old Ashok Mandal of
Bankim Nagar claimed to have lost seven Bigha(1.1 hectares)
of land in 2014 when the sea engulfed a large chunk of the village.
In West Bengal 1 katha is equal to 720ft² In Bangladesh, one kattha is standardized to 720 square feet(67 m2),
and 20 katha equals 1 Bigha.
There were 12 members of the society(including five of Sinha family), who collectively held 1,400 Bigha of land,
with the other seven having 400 Bigha," he said.