Union
Minister for Rural Development Jairam Ramesh on 1 November 2013 declared Kannur
in Kerala as the first zero-landless district in the country.
Kannur
District Authorities provided land to as many as 11118 beneficiaries, including
85 families belonging to the Scheduled Tribes category.
The Zero
Landless programme in Kerala
The
prestigious Zero Landless programme of the United Democratic Front was flagged
off by Congress president Sonia Gandhi in October 2013. The Zero Landless
programme envisages distribution of three cents of land each to 243928 families
identified across the State.
Kannur
District is one of the 14 districts in the state of Kerala, India. The town of
Kannur is the district headquarters. Its total area is 2966 km2.
Kannur
district is bound by the Western Ghats in the East (Coorg district of Karnataka
State), Kozhikkode and Wayanad districts, in the South, Lakshadeep sea in the
West and Kasaragod, the northern most district of Kerala, in the North.
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