Operation Barga Question 2022

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Response to question 1...............................................................................................................2
Response to question 2...............................................................................................................2
Response to question 3...............................................................................................................3
Response to question 4...............................................................................................................4
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Response to question 1
In 1978, a land reform movement was introduced in West Bengal, which was named
as Operation Barga. West Bengal Government took the initiative of introducing the
movement. The aim of the mentioned land reform movement was to improve the system of
cultivation as a part of the rent. According to Dutta (2015), the land reform system included
the area of cultivating the land around 20 per cent to 25 per cent within West Bengal. The
success of the mentioned movement, which helped in enhancing the total output of West
Bengal and the farmers’ income, was because of some probable reasons. Due to the
implementation of this movement, the sharecropper was provided with more and better
guarantees, and they were given their due shares. The other possible reason was that the
landowners provided more lands to the farmers, who now acts as a Bargadar. This helped the
farmers’ in yielding additional output and more income (Dasgupta and Bhaumik 2014).
Response to question 2
The present question will address that Operation Barga from the viewpoint of
consequentialism, whether provide any ethical justification. On the basis of the result of any
situation, the ethics of consequentialism helps in analyzing whether the situation if found to
be true or improper. One should stay in a way so that they can face more relevance to the
situation. This can be helped by consequentialism ethics believe (Ord 2013). The situation is
considered improper when the outcome states that the situation is worse in every aspect.
While, when the outcome of the situation is found to be better or good, then the situation is
true.
The case study that is mentioned has been stated that the outcome of the concerned
land reform system is found to be positive. The Government of West Bengal initiation in
introducing the system was a positive step towards the economic progress of the state. The
World Bank did this analysis and concluded the above statement. The implementation of the
Operation Barga policy was designed in such a way that it helped the efficiency of
agriculture, which rose to 28 per cent, improved the income of the farmers’ and increased the
overall production in the state, West Bengal. Hence, the sharecroppers got a positive and
additional benefit from the active participation of the government of West Bengal (Bardhan
et al. 2014). Hence, Operation Barga is found to be ethically justified from the standpoint of
Consequentialism. In the above mentioned case study, all the outcomes prove to be positive

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and as known that when the situation is found to be better, it is found correct from the
perspective of Consequentialism.
Response to question 3
An argument will be determined from the perspective of a deontological ethical
framework. This framework will provide an argument against or for Operation Barga.
Without knowing the framework properly, it cannot be concluded whether the argument will
be in favor of or against the land reform system policy. Thus, the framework should be
understood with clear knowledge. One of the ethics under the theory of normative ethic is
Deontological ethics. According to Lazar (2017), this type of ethic helps in judging the event
practically and stating whether the event is correct or incorrect with the help of actions.
Deontological frameworks state that the rules that are considered in any events cannot be
broken. The land reform system policy followed some rules. They were:
1. The sharecroppers or the bargadars previously known as independent farmers, pay a
certain amount of quota to the property owners. The certain percentage is around 25
per cent. This helps the bargadars to avoid being thrown out from the land, which is
used for cultivation (Roy 2017).
2. The sharecroppers, as mentioned by the concerned policy, will have access to keeping
three-quarters of the overall production of crops.
The West Bengal Government took the initiative of setting the above-mentioned rules,
which took effect totally from late 1979 and early 1980. From that time, Operation Barga
became a popular debatable topic with respect to the improvement of land reform. The
application of deontological framework determined the argument in against of the mentioned
land reform system policy. The policy did not consider the large areas and huge inhabitants of
West Bengal. Therefore, any situation, which was faced in those areas or problems of many
individuals were not considered. Therefore, those critical problems remained unsolved by the
system and even Operation Barga did not provide large scope. The outcome generated from
the innovation of technology resulted in the weak performance of the production (Laha
2013). The reason behind it was that the bargadars had a low skill and less knowledge about
the use of those technologies. The policies did not help in building agro-industrial industries
to manufacture agricultural goods. From the perspective of deontological ethics frameworks,
the laws of Operation Barga were violated in some respects. Thus, the practical action proved
that the policy taken was improper.