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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Govt mustn’t buy land for private parties: House

Govt mustn’t buy land for private parties: House

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published Published on May 17, 2012   modified Modified on May 17, 2012
-The Times of India

A parliamentary panel has recommended that government keep away from land purchase for private parties, contrary to the provision made in the pending land acquisition bill, striking at the heart of the Centre's plan to facilitate acquisition for industry and townships with better compensation.

The standing committee's blanket bar on acquisition for private bodies, including Public Private Partnership for projects defined as public purpose, strikes down the clause which explicitly allowed the state to step in to help the private sector. The bill tabled in Parliament in September provides for private parties to seek government help to buy a part of land marked for acquisition.

The bid to leave the private sector to fend for itself at a time when landowners are up in arms against the sale of land to corporates sharply conflicts with the rural development ministry's vision of using the amendment to the 1894 bill to facilitate land acquisition. RD minister Jairam Ramesh had said there was need for land for industrialization and urbanization and the bill provided for a fair compensation.

Having made it its war cry for UP polls following the Bhatta Parsaul agitation, the panel's report would test the government resolve to stay in the picture to help private parties who argue that bar on government role in acquisition for them would halt industrial growth.

Observers said Centre's predicament is that while it could face political opposition from BJP if it dilutes the provision for private parties, it may end up facing a hostile civil society too.

Besides ban on acquisitions for private sector, the panel has asked the Centre to tightly define 'public purpose' - a provision which justifies state's power to take over land forcibly. It has opposed vast discretion to the executive by allowing acquisition for PPP projects for 'production of public goods' or 'provision of public services'.

Interestingly, the panel said all 16 central laws which talk of land acquisition should be aligned with the LA amendment bill. It said exemption to the 16 Acts, as the proposed bill provides for, would leave out 95% of land acquisition. These central acts include those of railways, SEZ etc.

The panel report wants the tough conditions for acquisition of multi-cropped land to include 'all land under agricultural cultivation'. It said that rainfed areas which grow coarse grains, pulses and oilseeds cannot be left out in the bill's concern for food security, listing the drop in their production over last few years.

The panel has sought to extend the liberal resettlement and rehabilitation package to all acquisitions, including land purchase by private parties on their own, which are above the ceiling set by states. The central bill spoke of 100 acres in rural areas and 50 acres in urban pockets.

The Times of India, 17 May, 2012, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Govt-mustnt-buy-land-for-private-parties-House/articleshow/13177727.cms


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