Category: Policy and Budget
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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…