Category: R and R
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Emotional or Pragmatic!
Why people do not want to give up land (despite wanting to quit farming)? Nesar Ahmad The question of land is not emotional one as suggested by some economists who try to make the case for easy land acquisition. They suggest that the land is required for industrial and infrastructural development…
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Rajasthan Land Acquisition Bill 2014 stalled for now: Sent to the select committee of the Vidhan Sabha
The much criticised by people and civil society organisations and much appreciated by the corporates and corporate friendly media, the Rajasthan Land Acquisition Bill 2014 could not be passed in the special session of the Vidhan Sabha called to ratify the Judicial Appointments Bill. Perhaps the opposition to the proposed Land Acquisition Bill from most quarters of the state compelled the Bhartiya…
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Rajasthan Land Acquisition Bill 2014: Taking Away People’s Right
Nesar Ahmad After amending four central labour laws to make them more business friendly, the Vasundhra Raje government in Rajasthan has now come up with draft Rajasthan Land Acquisition Bill, 2014, which, if passed and implemented, will repeal the central act called ‘Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency and Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013’ in the state of…
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Making of a Law: The Right to Fair Compensation, Rehabilitation, Resettlement and Transparency in Land Acquisition Act, 2013
The government has recently (September 2013) passed a new Act in the Parliament which replaces the Land Acquisition Act 1894. The new act unifies land acquisition and R&R and makes R&R legally mandatory. The passing of this law has gone through many interesting phases and has seen various pulls and pushes. In 2009…
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जे एन एन यू आर एम और बद्तर होते शहरी ग़रीब
जावेद अनीस [anisjaved@gmail.com] [जवाहरलाल नेहरू अर्बन रिनुयल मिशन (जे एन एन यू आर एम) भारत सरकार द्वारा चलाया जा रहा शहरी विकास का सबसे बड़ा कार्यक्रम है जो भारत के कई शहरों में चलाया जा रहा है I प्रस्तुत आलेख में जावेद अनीस ने भोपाल शहर में इस कार्यक्रम के शहरी ग़रीबों पर होने वाले प्रभावों का…
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Land Aquisition Bill diluted further by GoM
Nesar Ahmad Even after pressed by his cabinet colleagues, Mr. Jairam Ramesh, the union minister for Rural Areas and Employment, had gone on record to say that there would be no further dilution in the land acquisition bill. The news reports, however, suggest that the Bill has been further diluted by the Group of Minister…
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Government ignores Parliamentary Committee’s Suggestion: Makes Land Acquisition bill further pro-industry
A revised version of the Land Acquisition and Rehabilitation and Resettlement bill 2011 is to be put before the cabinet for approval and there after to be introduced in the monsoon session of the parliament, without incorporating most of the major recommendations made by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Rural Development, to which it was referred last year after being tabled in the…