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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Govt land law climbdown

Govt land law climbdown

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published Published on Aug 4, 2015   modified Modified on Aug 4, 2015
-The Telegraph

New Delhi: A joint parliamentary committee has favoured restoring most of the provisions of the UPA's 2013 land law into the land acquisition bill the Centre wants to pass, signalling a climb-down by the government.

Sources said that even the BJP members on the 30-member panel had favoured scrapping the exemptions that the NDA's current bill provided from the social impact assessment (SIA) and consent provisions.

This would not have been possible without a nod from the Centre, they added.

They said the panel, headed by BJP member S.S. Ahulwalia, had discussed the amendments suggested by each party and made the following recommendations:

♦ Switch back to "private company" in the clause stipulating the consent of 80 per cent landowners for acquisition for private projects. The bill, which mirrors the currently enforced ordinance, had replaced "private company" with "private entity" to make room for NGOs, corporations, proprietorships, etc.

♦ Make the SIA mandatory for all projects except for acquisition under the urgency clause (mainly national security projects), as provided under the 2013 law. The current bill exempts national security projects, rural electrification and housing, industrial corridors and public-private-partnership (PPP) infrastructure projects.

♦ Revoke the exemption given to industrial corridor and PPP projects from the (70 per cent) consent provision.

Tomorrow, the panel will discuss the bill's provision to extend the deadline for return of unutilised land to any length of time specified in the project proposal. The 2013 law limits the period to five years.

The committee is expected to hand in its report on August 7. Its new bill will be placed before Parliament.

The Centre had been saying that the 2013 law was stalling development projects by making land acquisition extremely tough, and that several states had sought amendments to it.

Most Opposition parties, however, staunchly opposed the bill and prevented its passage in the Rajya Sabha, where the government lacks the numbers, during the budget session. Various Sangh affiliates, especially the farmer and labour arms, too opposed the bill.

At a recent Niti Aayog meeting, the NDA-ruled states had said they were keen to have their own land laws to facilitate growth if the Opposition delayed the central law. The Union cabinet too has discussed the possibility of letting state laws bypass the central law.

The Telegraph, 3 August, 2015, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1150804/jsp/nation/story_35332.jsp#.VcBQHvk1t_k


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