The land-use policy to follow the Gujarat model soon
The Gujarat model which enabled rapid industrialisation by offering wasteland for development is a method which the Modi government is thinking about replicating in other parts of the country. The Narendra Modi government has set its eye on a recast of the country’s land-use policy to make it more scientific and minimise displacement.
The Land Acquisition Act of 2013 is expected to make land purchases almost impossible because it mandates high compensation and the resettlement and rehabilitation of the affected families. This act was passed by the previous government and even the BJP had supported the same when the UPA government was in power. Now all the states have requested for amendments in the same.
There has been much criticism of the Land Acquisition Act of 2013 and the government and the private players feel that the land purchases will become almost impossible.
It is expected that the department of land resources, under the ministry of rural development, will revisit the land-use policy. This will be done in the light of Gujarat’s scientific model of land use for industrialisation and will try to enforce it at the all-India level. It is also expected that this will help in creative integration of state plans on the one hand and the national perspective of development plan on the other.
The officials will soon visit the western state to study its model.
Source- The Economic Times
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