West Bengal

Coverage balance

How many entries exist for each party's governments and each decade. This shows where the record is thin, so a quiet period reads as a gap in coverage, not as inactivity.

Dossiers

Actions in time order, by government

1. Jyoti Basu, 21 Jun 1977 to 6 Nov 2000

   CPI(M) CPI(M) government

   • ImplementedCPI(M)1 Jun 1978State

     Operation Barga sharecropper registration in West Bengal (1978)

     West Bengal's Left Front government began registering sharecroppers (bargadars) in 1978 to give them tenure protection and a fixed crop share. Studies differ on its effect on output and on how secure the rights proved.

     Evidence points +10.5 (range +10.0 to +11.0)