In a significant verdict, the Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the validity of land acquisition for the integrated development of the Yamuna Expressway and its adjoining areas in Gautam Budh Nagar,......
'A picture has been created that the government is anti-farmer, which is absolutely wrong,' argues BJP MP Bhupender Yadav. The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition,......
As a controversy rages over land acquisition in Uttar Pradesh, the Centre on Thursday said it has plans to introduce a bill in this regard in the next session of Parliament as there appears to be......
The Winter session of Parliament beginning Monday will see the government push its reforms agenda with a legislation to open up the civil nuclear sector to private players, while the Opposition is......
The Maharashtra government on Monday informed the Bombay high court that the land acquisition process on the entire line of the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project has been completed except the......
Bajaj Industries chairman Rahul Bajaj on Thursday said the government should change the archaic land acquisition rules in India to deal with contentious issues like Singur. "The land acquisition......
The National Democratic Alliance government is planning to exempt public-private partnership projects from the need to obtain consent of affected families and the mandatory social-impact......
The debate over the land ordinance is best located in facts, not hyperbole, says Sreenivasan Jain. Labourers work along the construction site of a road at Ghilot in Rajasthan. Photograph: Adnan......
After seeing the Nandigram setback in West Bengal, the Central government now wants all states to spread awareness about the land acquisition procedures. As part of this the state governments have......
In his book, Backstage: The Story Behind India’s High Growth Years, Montek Singh Ahluwalia accepted the Act “increased the cost of land to financially unsustainable levels …......