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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Govt. looking for common ground to break impasse over Land Bill -Puja Mehra

Govt. looking for common ground to break impasse over Land Bill -Puja Mehra

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published Published on Jul 5, 2015   modified Modified on Jul 5, 2015
-The Hindu

‘The options will allow both sides to claim victory’

Following directions from the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), “thinking heads” in the Modi government have begun to formulate a strategy for breaking the impasse in the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) over the controversial Land Acquisition Bill.

Options are being discussed to find a meeting ground for the government and the Opposition parties on three contentious provisions of the Bill — the consent clause, the social impact analysis and issues related to food security.

The UPA’s Land Acquisition Act required that at least 80 per cent of landowners must give consent to land acquisition for private projects and 70 per cent for public-private partnership projects.

Exemptions

The Modi government’s Bill proposes to exempt from consent five kinds of projects — defence, rural infrastructure, affordable housing, industrial corridors and infrastructure — when the Centre owns the land. A top government source told The Hindu that one option was to peg the number of consenting landowners to somewhere between 51 per cent and 80 per cent, but to apply this clause only to acquisitions for purely private use.

A new category of “essential infrastructure” will be created and defined for both rural and urban areas that will be exempted even from this redefined consent clause.

Lastly, those acquisitions for PPP projects where land will continue to vest with the government will be exempted.

“This will cover most of the five categories of infrastructure to which the Ordinance provides exemption,” the source said. The discussions on options are still under way. If the PMO gives the go-ahead, senior BJP leaders or Ministers could take them up — formally or informally — with the Opposition.

“The options will have to be such that both sides will be able to claim victory,” the source said.

On social impact assessment, one of the options, said the source, was to break it up into two parts: decide whether or not to go ahead with acquisition; and, decide on compensation and rehabilitation and resettlement and apply as per requirements of the projects.

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The Hindu, 5 July, 2015, http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/govt-looking-for-common-ground-to-break-impasse-over-land-bill/article7387230.ece?homepage=true


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