New Land Acquisition Act- Impractical and detrimental for the infrastructure growth
In Panaji, the deputy chief minister Francis D’Souza stated that the new central Land Acquisition Act, passed during the earlier UPA government, may either be amended or totally revamped. Most of the states in India are facing difficulties in implementing it.
D’Souza, who is also the state revenue minister, had attended the all-India revenue ministers’ conference in Delhi and after returning to Goa mentioned about this.
The North-Eastern states have demanded that the Land Acquisition Act be withdrawn, because they claimed that theirs is community land and the government cannot take it away from them. D’Souza mentioned that most of the state ministers were of the opinion that practically it is impossible to use this act.
D’Souza also mentioned that small states had their own problems while implementing this act. The act has a provision whereby when land is acquired; the people whose land has been acquired have to be rehabilitated. However this is not practical in Goa, because there is a huge scarcity of land in the Union Territory.
D’Souza mentioned that as per the new act, the acquisition proposal has to be put up before the gram sabhas and it has to be approved by 70% of those present. However if his government has to acquire land for the highway from Mapusa to Margao for road widening, there are numerous villages all along the length of this road. If the government has to go to each gram sabha and get 70% approval, then this project will never take off. D’souza and other state ministers had put forward their opinions before Nitin Gadkari.
Source- The Times of India
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