Delhi Land Reforms Act, 1954 (Act No. 8 of 1954).

This Act, consisting of 192 sections divided into seven Chapters and two Schedules, provides for modification of zamindari system so as to create an uniform body of peasant proprietors without intermediaries, for the unification of the Punjab and Agra systems of tenancy laws in force in the State of Delhi. There shall be, for the purposes of this Act, only class of land tenure-holder, that is to say, 'Bhumidhar' and one class of sub-tenure holder, that is to say, 'Asami'. Provided that land is given in exchange to a tenure holder or a sub-tenure holders, as a result of consolidation of holdings. Every person belonging to any of the following class shall have all the rights and be subject to all the related liabilities conferred. The Act is divided as follows: Preliminary (Chap. I); Acquisition of certain rights of Proprietors (Chap. II); Declaration of Bhumidhari rights, compensation and land Revenue (Chap. III); Land Revenue (Chap. IV); Gmn Sabha and Gaon Panchayat (Chap. V); Cooperative Farms (Chap. VI); Miscellaneous (Chap. VII).