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Civil Society Demands Withdrawal of AP "Anti-People" Land Acquisition Amendment Bill

-Hindkisan.com

“This amendment is an insult to people who fought hard to secure progressive provisions in the LARR 2013, it weaken people’s power to challenge illegal and unjust forced acquisition of land, and empowers the state and corporations to infringe upon people’s rights over natural resources” read the statement.

Various civil society organisations have come together to oppose the recent President’s assent granted to the amendments made in the Andhra Pradesh Land Acquisition Amendment Bill.

Claiming the bill to be anti-people, a joint statement drafted by various groups and representatives of people’s movements accused the Andhra Pradesh government of diluting the provisions of the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act (LARR), 2013 introduced by the previous Congress government.

“This amendment is an insult to people who fought hard to secure progressive provisions in the LARR 2013, it weakens people’s power to challenge illegal and unjust forced acquisition of land, and empowers the state and corporations to infringe upon people’s rights over natural resources” read the statement.

The government had held that the after the bifurcation of the state, it is in urgent need of more land and that 2013 Act posed a major hurdle in this direction. To make land acquisitions more easy, the government made various amendments which includes not making inquiries before Collectors pass an award for acquiring land after taking consent of the interested person and exemption of certain projects termed vital to national security, defence, irrigation and other projects can be exempted from the requirement of Chapter – II of Act 30 of 2013.

The statement has further accused these amendments of emboldening the state efforts of coercion and intimidation to acquire farmlands. Warning that such dilutions in farmer and workers friendly laws will prove costly to the people, the joint endorsement said that tenant cultivators, women farmers, fisher people, landless Dalits and forest-dwelling Adivasis especially in scheduled areas would be the worst-affected if the large portions of fertile land.

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