Thiruvananthapuram: Seventy-year-old Sharadhaamma works as a domestic help and lives with her employees. Her husband juggles his stay between relatives. They don't have any land or a home to call their own.
They once owned about 700 square yards of land but gave that away to their two daughters.
"We had 15 cents and don't have even one cent now because we gave it to our daughters for their wedding," says Shardhaamma.
Flagged off by Congress President Sonia Gandhi in 2013, the project aims to provide land to all landless citizens in the state by 2015 - a target that the government is now at risk of missing.
In capital Thiruvananthapuram for the 3,500 selected beneficiaries under the Zero Landless Programme, 2,626 land deeds were issued by the state in 2012.
The recent Socio Economic and Caste Census data released in the past month has pegged Kerala as the state with the third highest number of rural households bereft of any land ownership.
Officials in the Congress-led UDF government blame a crunch of resources. The state has two-and-a-half times the population density of the national average.
Ajay Kumar from an NGO Rights says, "There is a ghettoisation currently underway. The benefits of the land purchase by government are not reaching everyone. It's not the tillers who are getting the benefit, it's the tenants."
They once owned about 700 square yards of land but gave that away to their two daughters.
"We had 15 cents and don't have even one cent now because we gave it to our daughters for their wedding," says Shardhaamma.
Flagged off by Congress President Sonia Gandhi in 2013, the project aims to provide land to all landless citizens in the state by 2015 - a target that the government is now at risk of missing.
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In capital Thiruvananthapuram for the 3,500 selected beneficiaries under the Zero Landless Programme, 2,626 land deeds were issued by the state in 2012.
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The recent Socio Economic and Caste Census data released in the past month has pegged Kerala as the state with the third highest number of rural households bereft of any land ownership.
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Officials in the Congress-led UDF government blame a crunch of resources. The state has two-and-a-half times the population density of the national average.
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Ajay Kumar from an NGO Rights says, "There is a ghettoisation currently underway. The benefits of the land purchase by government are not reaching everyone. It's not the tillers who are getting the benefit, it's the tenants."
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