Abstract

In India, agriculture absorbs and provides employment to millions of our people. With a view to find out whether scientific farming would provide a decent income to the educated unemployed, Rao Bahadur Sri. M. R. Ramaswami Sivan, Retired Principal, Agricultural College, Coim batore, made a special study of the colonisation scheme in progress in the Punjab. He had the opportunity for this study, when he visited Lyallpur. In the Punjab, extensive areas with irrigation facilities are available and such lands were assigned to graduates who were willing to colonize ther and make agriculture their profession. The initial assignment of land was on a temporary basis but with the proviso that if the lands were properly cultivated and the colonies were kept in sanitary condition, permanent occupancy rights might be granted to the lessees any time after a period of 5 years The first batch consisting of 48 graduates from Arls, Science and professional colleges started the colony in 1932 and is still continuing as colonist farmers.

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