Legal
A senior official of South Central Railway (SCR) has revealed that the process of acquisition of land for the proposed Kazipet wagon project has started. Land is being acquired for the wagon manufacturing unit proposed at Kazipet in the Warangal district of Telangana. According to the information shared by SCR General Manager P K Srivastava, [...] Continue Reading »
Goa government’s decision to request the Central government to discard the state’s new land acquisition law has led to protest from activists and citizens from Margao. The land acquisition law which the Goa government wants the Central government to cast off necessitates that farmers and land owners affected by land acquisition in the state should [...] Continue Reading »
There are still a lot of question marks on the land acquisition bill and the BJP-ruled States have urged the Narendra Modi Government to repeal the “anti-industry, anti-development and anti-farmer” Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013. The farmers and land owners are scared that their lands will be acquired for infrastructure projects and they [...] Continue Reading »
There has been a lot of negativity around the Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act of 2013. The Narendra Modi-led NDA Government may face stiff resistance in amending this act. Most of the BJP-ruled States demanded the repealing of the Act at a recent meeting of Revenue Ministers. Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in two minds about [...] Continue Reading »
The land registry ban which the Gehlot government had imposed in Jasol and Pachpadra on July 11, 2013, has been overturned by Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje’s cabinet. The ban on registry of land in Jasol and Pachpadra was put in place by the Gehlot government last year, after a phenomenal escalation in land prices shortly [...] Continue Reading »
In a project aimed at digitalizing land records in Pune, the Maharashtra government has plans underway to scan the land records of all the districts. The project will involve the scanning of approximately 26 crore documents pertaining to all land-related records in all the districts of Pune. The process will help the authorities at the [...] Continue Reading »
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 [...] Continue Reading »
In a policy recommendation to the State Government, the Bangalore Chamber of Industry and Commerce (BCIC) suggested that Karnataka should explore dual land pricing policy. This will help them to address the issue of regional imbalance and encourage the spread of industries across the State. The industrial land beyond a radius of 100 km of Bangalore [...] Continue Reading »
A Kerala High court division bench comprising Chief Justice Manjula Chellur and Justice P R Ramachandra Menon on Monday questioned the inactivity of the state government regarding widening of national highways to 45 metres. The bench stated that land for the highways had been acquired years ago. The central and state governments have both provided [...] Continue Reading »
According to reliable sources, around 11 floors were demolished by the Mumbai municipality’s special squad. These floors were found in a building named Deshabhiman in Siddharth Nagar. Located in the western region of Goregaon and 25 kilometres away from Campa Cola Complex at Worli, the process of destruction began this January. This happened hardly two [...] Continue Reading »
