NDA General Ability Question (2025) — Solution

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The Bhoodan Movement was initiated by Acharya Vinoba Bhave in 1951 at Pochampally village in Telangana (then part of Hyderabad State). Thus, the first donation of land was not in Bihar. The movement was a voluntary land reform initiative, and Vinoba Bhave appealed to landowners to consider him as their sixth son and donate one-sixth of their cultivable land for distribution among the landless. The target was to collect 50 million acres, which was roughly one-sixth of India's total cultivable land at the time. The movement was not approved through a Central Government Act; rather, various state governments later passed their own Bhoodan Acts to facilitate the legal transfer of donated lands. A significant portion of the donated land was either uncultivable or entangled in legal disputes, meaning it was not ensured that the donated land was free from litigation. Therefore, the only correct statement is that the target was to get one-sixth of the cultivable land in India as a donation. Answer: The target was to get one-sixth of cultivable land in India as donation