Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act 2013
Change to Land act which has been instrumental in stalling of various real estate projects is likely to come up in the winter session of parliament. The government had promised amendments in the land acquisition act to make it balanced for both land sellers and developers. The new change to land act is likely to [...] Continue Reading »
Mamata Banerjee the chief minister of West Bengal might have led a hostile movement forcing Tata Motors to relocate its Nano project from Singur; but if her government has its way on the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act 2013, the farmers of Singur whose land was acquired by the [...] Continue Reading »
In a recent letter addressed to the Urban Development Ministry, DDA vice-chairperson Balvinder Kumar has sought an exemption from the new land acquisition act — the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013. Kumar said in the letter that the new land acquisition act – which came into [...] Continue Reading »
Speedier project implementation in the infrastructure sector is the mantra of the new NDA government. The government is considering radical changes in the Land Acquisition Act to enable speedier project implementation by diluting the social impact assessment and consent clauses. Due to these clauses many people in the area who are not ready to part [...] 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 »
The outgoing UPA government considered the land acquisition Act as one of its greatest achievements. The new law faced violent agitations as the land was taken away from the farmers and the compensation was inadequate when the land was acquired for any government infrastructure project. The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, [...] Continue Reading »
The Mamata Banerjee government will not acquire any land from farmers for the next couple of months from now, even if it is required for government projects. The message has already been conveyed to the government departments after the chief minister’s press meet with Anna Hazare in New Delhi. The Trinamool chief plans to champion [...] Continue Reading »
