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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Govt to strip land bill of sticky clauses, let states decide

Govt to strip land bill of sticky clauses, let states decide

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published Published on Jul 23, 2015   modified Modified on Jul 23, 2015
-The Times of India

NEW DELHI: The Centre is likely to work out the contours of the reworked land acquisition bill by next week amid indications that it may be purged of all the politically unpopular provisions.

It is learnt that the Modi government may allow states to draft their own acquisition laws with the frame of reference being the central law which would only have "pro-people" measures; a tack aimed at neutralizing the Congress-led opposition charge that the Centre has amended the UPA law to help industry.

Sources said the central law would have "five sweeteners" and none of the measures that have given a handle to the opposition to target the government as "pro-industry".

The new bill would mandate a "four-fold and two-fold compensation in rural and urban areas". The UPA law had provided for "sliding scale of compensation" of "up to four times" of market value — which meant that the value of acquired land would increase with its distance from urban areas.

Another clause would provide for one job for every family displaced by acquisition.

In contrast, the Centre would remove the contentious clauses that have led to the opposition campaign.

Given that land acquisition is in the "concurrent list" of the Constitution, the move envisages a regime in which states can have their own laws with provisions as they feel constitutes the right balance between "welfare" and "industrialization".

This, the Centre hopes, will rid it of the problem of dealing with problematic provisions like "consent clause" and "social impact assessment". The NDA regime had amended the UPA law and dropped the twin provisions, attracting serious criticism from Congress and other opposition parties as being "anti-farmer".

With the central law leaving it to states to deal with the contentious provisions, the ruling camp believes it will neutralize the anger that it attracted by amending the UPA law.

The contours of the new bill are almost ready and a final shape will be clinched after the joint committee of Parliament gives its report. The bill was referred to the parliamentary panel after the Centre failed to hammer out a consensus with the opposition to ensure its passage in Rajya Sabha.

The proposal to allow states to have their own laws came from BJP-ruled states at the recent Niti Aayog meeting. If it has been lapped up by the Centre, it is because the move will help it lob the ball in states' court and rid it of a major political conundrum.

The Times of India, 23 July, 2015, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Govt-to-strip-land-bill-of-sticky-clauses-let-states-decide/articleshow/48180267.cms


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