UPA’s Land Acquisition Bill: Amended version presented by the Rajasthan government
The draft of the new bill on land acquisition was released by Rajasthan on Monday. The draft retains a few aspects of the previous Congress-government version and has eased up and scrapped several key components. The new bill has done away with the clause to seek consent from the landowners for infrastructure projects undertaken by the government. The process of taking consent was delaying the infrastructure projects a lot and the growth of the nation was stalled.
The government will execute these projects in partnership with the infrastructure industry. It has also marginally decreased the upward ceiling of compensation for acquiring land in urban areas while increasing it for semi-rural and rural areas. The present version of the draft text indicates a few positive moves. The state’s emphasis is entirely on expediting the Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) projects in the infrastructure sector.
Following a PPP focused budget, with massive allocations for big projects in various sectors, the Rajasthan government has come up with this draft of the proposed land acquisition Act. The government wants to deter protests by stringent measures including imprisonment. This is a new provision which was not a part of the Central law which was created by the erstwhile congress government.
The center is collecting the drafts from all the states regarding the amendments which they want to propose in the new bill.
Source- The Economic Times
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