Category: Parliamentary Standing Committee
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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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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…