Acharya Vinoba Bhave received the first donation of land under the Bhoodan Movement at

The Bhoodan Movement (Land Gift Movement) was a voluntary land reform movement in India initiated by Acharya Vinoba Bhave, a spiritual successor of Mahatma Gandhi, in 1951. The movement aimed to address land inequality through non-violent means by persuading wealthy landowners to donate a portion of their land to the landless.

• The movement was launched on April 18, 1951, at Pochampally village in the Nalgonda district (now in the Yadadri Bhuvanagiri district of Telangana).
• The first person to donate land was Vedre Ramachandra Reddy, who offered 100 acres of land to landless villagers following Bhave's appeal.
• In honor of this historic event, the village was renamed Bhoodan Pochampally.
• The movement eventually evolved into the Gramdan movement, advocating for communal ownership of village land.

This initiative remains one of the most significant post-independence experiments in social justice and voluntary land redistribution based on Gandhian principles.