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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Bengal for land cap in bill by Biswajit Roy

Bengal for land cap in bill by Biswajit Roy

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published Published on Aug 19, 2011   modified Modified on Aug 19, 2011

The Mamata Banerjee government wants the Centre to include in the draft National Land Acquisition and Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill provisions of the Bengal’s land ceiling law, which caps holdings by industry at 24.88 acres.

State cabinet sources also said the government would not accept any special economic zone (SEZ) and ask the Centre make its position clear on such enclaves, which typically require large tracts, in the bill.

The recommendations were made by the group of ministers (GoM) entrusted with the job of fine-tuning the state’s land policy and Bengal’s inputs on the central bill.

The report of the GoM was placed before the cabinet yesterday. The cabinet will finalise its position after the Congress leader and irrigation minister Manas Bhuniya, who is a member of the panel but could not participate in its last meeting, goes through the blueprint.

The Congress-led Centre had planned to place the bill before Parliament at the fag end of the ongoing monsoon session but Trinamul sources said that was unlikely because the differences within the UPA and outside it.

The state land reforms act bars holding of non-irrigated rural land over 24.88 acres but allows exemptions for industry, such as housing and tea gardens, on government clearance.

“We think 24 acres is sufficient for small and medium industrial units. No exemptions should be allowed for them even if they purchase plots directly from land-owners. The ceiling provision should be part of the central bill, ’’ a GOM member said.

“Although we are not asking for the same upper limit in case of big units, exemptions should be given only on a case-by-case basis to curb concentration of farmland in the hands of big investors,’’ he added.

Whether the Centre accepts the suggestion or not, the state land policy will follow the approach, the minister said. Industries minister Partha Chatterjee has already asked business chambers to collect information from their members on land being held above the ceiling without government permission.

The GOM ruled out concessions suggested by Trinamul MP and land expert Debabrata Bandopadhyay, who headed the panel that framed the new government’s land policy.

He had suggested a leeway for government procurement of land for private sector in case of public-private partnerships (PPP), particularly infrastructure projects.

The Telegraph, 19 August, 2011, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110819/jsp/nation/story_14396484.jsp


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