Category: Land Acquisition
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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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Politics of Privatisation and PPP in Rajasthan: What are the risks?
Nesar Ahmad Recent policy developments in the state The BJP government in last almost two years has brought in some very interesting policy and legislative changes in Rajasthan. Let us have a look at some of the recent policy and legal changes in the state of Rajasthan. Below is a summary of some of the…
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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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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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Whither Policy Direction!!!
Nesar Ahmad First published in today’s Hindustan Times The recently formed Bhartiya Janta Party government in Rajasthan has not very clearly articulated its policy direction yet. The state unit of BJP had presented a long election manifesto before the legislative assembly elections, but the government has hardly got any time to implement it. Soon after…
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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…