Giving a message of larger opposition unity, Congress President Sonia Gandhi and former prime minister Manmohan Singh will march with leaders of at least ten parties from Parliament House to President House on Tuesday and submit a memorandum against the new land bill.
On the face of it, some clauses in the new land ordinance looks pro-farmer but in reality it is not so. The problem is two-fold. The first is the vagueness of the law itself. The other problem with this ordinance is that it is against the very ethos of judicial interpretation, says Vidhan Vyas.
Any such acquisition, if at all, should only be in exceptional cases
The Union Cabinet on Tuesday night decided to recommend re-promulgation of the land acquistion ordinance incorporating nine amendments that were part of the bill that was passed in Lok Sabha earlier this month.
The tribal communities, asserting their rights under the Forest Rights Act, are now planning to gather in Delhi to demand "justice" for their livelihoods and traditions that are closely linked to the forests.
Why is the government ignoring the advice of its own Economic Survey?
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will address an Aam Aadmy Party rally against the land Bill at Jantar Mantar and might also lead a march to Parliament on April 22.
Farmers are juggling with thousand other problems apart from the Land Acquisition Bill. Who will discuss them?
The rally, organised by Kisan Uday Abhiyan, led by Manveer Teotia, included farmers from Gautam Buddh Nagar, Ghaziabad, Aligarh and Meerut.
Before repeal of Article 370 and Article 35-A in August last year, non-residents could not buy any immovable property in Jammu and Kashmir. However, the fresh changes have paved the way for non-residents to buy land in the union territory.
The NITI Aayog will now assimilate the views of states and then present a report to the PM.
Without land, big projects will not take off.
Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee has refused to endorse any law that leaves the job of buying 70 per cent of the land to the private sector.
Only in the case of public infrastructure did the government facilitate purchase. Hence, Gujarat would not have to make much changes post the Bill," said C L Meena, revenue secretary.
Union Rural development Minister Jairam Ramesh is burning the midnight oil to bring the Land Acquisition and Resettlement and Rehabilitation Bill 2011 before the Cabinet on Monday so that it can be cleared and then introduced in Parliament before the Monsoon Session ends on September 8.
New Land Bill is aimed at reviving investment climate.
As the Budget session of Parliament resumes on Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that he looks forward to a productive session, filled with constructive debates on several issues.
A course on 'land acquisition, rehabilitation and environmental clearance of projects' is also being offered by IIT-Kharagpur.
The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear on Monday the plea of farmers' organisations challenging legality of the fresh promulgation of the land acquisition ordinance by the Narendra Modi-led government.
'Which one of us would give up our flats for development?' 'We insist that others, who are unwilling but weak, make all the sacrifices on our behalf and then we are puzzled when there is violence against the State,' says Aakar Patel.
Officials said the World Bank, Japan International Cooperation Agency and Asian Development Bank had evinced interest in the project.
Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday ruled out stocks or shares as a form of recompense to those who might have lost their land while making way for industrial development.
The amendment Act provides for the elimination of the exemption as it relates to compensation and resettlement and rehabilitation of families.
Land ordinance has done away with consent and social impact assessment.
Former rural development minister Jairam Ramesh tells Sanjeeb Mukherjee that the Ordinance to amend the land acquisition Act (2013) opens the door for forcible acquisition and undermines the spirit and the substance of the legislation.
The Land Acquisition Bill, passed by Parliament last month, will either make projects unviable or expensive for large infrastructure or real estate projects.
11 BJP members in the Joint Committee of Parliament on land bill moved amendments seeking to bring back the social impact assessment and consent clause.
Unfortunately, in India, infrastructure projects are lost in a miasma of political and personal vanity, observes Shyam G Menon.
Over 100 Opposition members of Parliament led by Congress Chief Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday marched from Parliament to the Rashtrapati Bhawan
Ramesh says the best route now is to refer the amendments to Parliament's standing committee on rural development.
Given the Opposition majority in the Rajya Sabha, the LARR Bill passed by the Upper House may be a deeply diluted version of the government's own 2015 Bill
Maybe Modi could ask a patriarch of the stature of the late G D Birla to flesh out the details of a new company to manage government land privatisation.
Jairam Ramesh, architect of the UPA's 2011 land acquisition bill, reacts to Amit Shah's interview to Rediff.com in which he defended the NDA government's land bill ordinance.
The second meeting of the NITI Aayog's governing council, was, however, attended by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.
'Give time to the 2013 Act to work. I not only think that the 2013 law is workable, I believe that the 2013 law is a compromise, a balanced middle path and protects the interests of land owners and livelihood losers.'
Opposition party is unlikely to block Bills for GST, insurance and e-auction of coal mines.
The contentious Land bill passed the Lok Sabha test after the government carried out nine amendments.
'The so-called economic reforms are for the rich.' 'The government should not facilitate and entertain this kind of lust for land by the capitalists.'
Hours after taking charge as CM, Mamata had announced returning 400 acres to 'unwilling' land-losers
The high-pitched election speeches skipped corporate issues, unlike during the assembly polls about four months ago.
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