Tilling a Society

The recent carnage in khagaria district of Bihar has more to it than meets the eye.
Over 3 dozen armed criminals in Icharua village dragged 21 men, mostly youths, from their homes and after taking them to an isolated area, shot and killed 16 of them. Others managed to escape in the cover of the darkness.
There have been blame game and soon the story will be a forgotten one, like many other such incidents.
Incidents like this though just keep adding up for further events which will happen in the future. Issues related to land do not get forgotten in this part of the world. The rest of the world might forget it, but the classes here, take cue from this one to form the next bend for the society. It might not affect the rest of the world directly, but a flutter of a butterfly effect would surely bring rain in the rest of the country.
This issue sure looks like a law and order problem to begin with. Of course it is, but it is deep rooted in the concept of property rights.
The cast war, the Maoist or Naxal problems, the land mafia’s, the criminal-politician-bureaucrat nexus, in Bihar, the roots of all lay here. In fact, my bet is the recent debacle of the ruling JDU-BJP combine in Bihar also has roots here. The suspicion over implementation of Bandopadhya committee report did not get unnoticed in the core of the Bihar’s society.
Land reforms and revenue based models on land, right from the days of mughal period till date, have added pages of history to form what the lands and people of Bihar are today.
It’s a fact that, the last survey that is acknowledged by the courts still is that of the British; all frivolous efforts of the Indian government still do not stand on the courts of law. To complicate issues they have the survey of the 1953 still unfinished, the land consolidation- a closed chapter, the land ceiling act, the bataidari act, the laws for the riverine areas, the bhoodan movement, and once in a five year term, they pass a land reforms act.
Every government that is in power distributes thousands of acres of land to lakhs of people every year. Of course reasons are the same as NREGA or Rs. 2 per kg of rice. Whether the land really belongs to the government and if it is in their possession is not important. People settle scores buy distributing parchas of someone else’s land too.
It would be an impossible task to have a single remedy or a quick solution to all this.
However, we need to think beyond just a law and order problem.
Is there a liberal solution to it? I propose to have a panel discussion on the issue and prepare a recommendation for all interested in a near solution, if possible.
Please do put in your suggestions.