Land Acquisition Bill to Increase Land and Housing Prices
Confederation of Real Estate Developers Association of India (CREDAI) says that land owned by private companies should not be considered under the land acquisition bill as this would lead to a rise in land cost very soon and affordable houses would soon become a dream. According to the bill introduced in Lok Sabha the rehabilitation and resettlements would be applied only when private firms buy land for the project more than 100 acres in rural areas and more than 50 acres in urban areas. The compensation to land owners will increase by nearly four times higher than the market rate with the other adds on benefits.
The Managing Director and the Country head Sachin Sandhir of Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors said that; this bill makes hardly any distinction between compulsory acquisition and the open market transactions. However, the compensation is to be given in both the cases equally. The CREDAI, President Lilith Kumar Jain said to PTI that “the land acquired by private companies cannot be subjected to Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2011. However it will only increase the cost of land concept of affordable housing, and the same will be defeated.
Builders call Land Acquisition Act an Anti-development. The Bill’s current approach will certainly result in the cost of land increasing many such times higher than prevailing rates.
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