The group of ministers on the rehabilitation policy has devised separate solutions for the two set of people affected by the acquisition of land by industry.

The GoM has proposed that those who sell their land to industry should get just the price of the land. They will not get the benefit of any social impact assessment, resettlement or even any grievance redressal mechanism promised in the draft rehabilitation policy, it has proposed.

The policy, which will now become a law, will benefit only those who have to sell their land to the government, which can acquire 30 per cent of the land needed by industry.

The GoM, chaired by Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, in its final meeting yesterday decided that a majority of those who would be affected by land acquisition would not be rehabilitated.

It also decided to do away with public hearings and other compensation in the form of houses, jobs and other sops for those who sell land to industry. It also does not address the needs of the landless who depend on the lands to be acquired by industry.

Sources in the GoM confirmed this and said the government would come out with two legislation, one for amending the Land Acquisition Act and another on the rehabilitation policy, which would apply only to those whose land was acquired by the government. The draft rehabilitation policy seeks appointment of a relief and rehabilitation administrator for each project.