Category: Displacement
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Nature of Land Conflicts in India
Review of the Report ‘Locating the Breach: Land Conflicts in India’ Laura Begu Land is central to India’s development trajectory, and conflicts over land have critical social, economic, cultural and political impacts, that jeopardize the well-being and the very identity of often already marginalized communities. Conflicts over land in India account for the largest set…
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Asia Land Forum: A Platform for People Struggling for Land Rights
Asia Land Forum 2019 held in Udaipur, Rajasthan, India “Asia Land Forum has given inspiration and rejuvenation to continue our fights for ‘our land –our identity’ and against injustices globally” – Mike Taylor, Director International Land Coalition This year the Asia Land Forum was organized in Udaipur, India on September 30 – October 3, 2019 by…
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भूमि अधिग्रहण कानून में बदलाव की नाकाम कोशिश: किसानों व आदिवासीयों की जीत
नेसार अहमद पिछले 30 वर्षो में पहली बार लोकसभा में पुर्ण बहुमत के साथ सत्ता में आई भाजपा सरकार को संसद के भीतर और बाहर भूमि अधिग्रहण के मुद्दे पर मुंह की खानी पड़ी। सत्ता में आते ही मोदी सरकार ने 2013 में मनमोहन सिंह सरकार द्वारा पारित भूमि अधिग्रहण, पुनःस्थापन एवं पुनर्वास में उचित…
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Unutilised SEZ Land: Forcible Land Acquisition for What!
Nesar Ahmad As the opposition to the bill proposing amendments in the Land Acquisition and Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act 2013 intensifies within and outside of the Parliament, the government has provided data on unutilised land acquired for SEZ in 20 states of the country. A major argument made by the government and supporters of…
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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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ORDINANCE AMENDING THE LAND ACQUISITION AND R&R ACT, 2013: SELL-OUT OR PAYBACK TIME?
Persis Ginwalla[1] Sagar Rabari[2] The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 (RFCTLARR, hereafter referred to as LARR 2013) was the culmination of decades of struggle by people’s movements against arbitrariness, injustice and land grab. It appeared that people’s voice was finally reaching the portals of power. And…
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जमीन लूट की गारंटी देता भूमि अधिग्रहण अध्यादेश
ग्लैडसन डुंगडुंग देश में तथाकथित विकास परियोजनाओं के द्वारा विस्थापित लोगों के लिए मुआवजा, पुनर्वास एवं पुनर्स्थापना की मांग को लेकर लम्बे समय से चले जनांदोलनों के बदौलत भारतीय संसद ने किसान, आदिवासी रैयत एवं कृषक मजदूरों को भयभीत करनेवाला अंग्रेजों द्वारा लागू किया गया ‘भूमि अधिग्रहण कानून 1894’‘ को खारिज करते हुए ‘‘भूमि अर्जन,…
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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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Sacrificed twice at the altar of the nation
“If you are to suffer, you should suffer in the interest of the country….” Jawaharlal Nehru, speaking to villagers displaced by the Hirakud dam Villages submerged in Bargi dam project Adivasis in Mandla district of Madhya Pradesh had no such illusion this time as they rose up in protest against the public hearing for…