identify the lands available for redistribution and strengthen pro-poor laws Establishment of fast track courts to settle past and future conflicts related to land Establishment of a single window system so that farmers can resolve easily and freely the land issues, without wasting time, money and energy Ekta Parishad The Janadesh 2007 campaign is being organized by Ekta Parishad, an organization that was formally established in 1990. According to its founder, Puthan Veetil Rajagopal, Ekta Parishad is not an NGO or a political party. It is instead a people's movement, which works at the grass-roots level to mobilize people to challenge corruption and exploitation. Quoted in the book "Truth Force" Rajagopal states this aim: "What I am trying to do, through Ekta Parishad, is to help people to understand that they can be leaders of the country". Ekta Parishad are particularly focused on land and livelihood issues amongst marginalized communities (such as Dalits and Adivasis) in rural India and are active in eight Indian states (Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Orissa, Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Kerala), and in direct contact with around 4000 villages. There are two main components to Ekta Parishad's work – the struggle component and constructive work. The struggle component involves mobilizing people to take part in various forms of non-violent resistance such as Padyatras (foot marches), Dharnas (sit-ins), Gheraos (preventing unjust incidents from taking place by encircling people who wield power), and Chakka jam (road blockades) to press for their land rights. This is based on the Gandhian tradition of non-violent resistance. The constructive work focuses on running economic and development activities alongside the land rights struggle, with the intention of allowing villages that have gained land to become economically self-sufficient. These activities include: Providing spaces for the sale of village produce (e.g. handicrafts, khadi, honey, rice, oil) in urban centers; Promoting agricultural development through organic farming methods and cultivation of herbal plants for medicinal purposes; Development of irrigation schemes, and small-scale economic programs like running shops, grain banks, fishery, poultry and goat rearing. Gallery References World Bank, India: Achievements and Challenges in Reducing Poverty, World Bank Country Study, 1997 K Sundaram, Suresh Tendulkar, Poverty among Social and Economic Groups in India in 1990s, Economic and Political Weekly, 13 December 2003 T Hanstad, J Brown, R Prosterman, Larger Homestead Plots as Land Reform?, Economic and Political Weekly, 20 July 2002 Towards a Peoples Land Policy,