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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Land Acquisition Bill :Farmers protest outside Jairam Ramesh's house

Land Acquisition Bill :Farmers protest outside Jairam Ramesh's house

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published Published on Oct 21, 2012   modified Modified on Oct 21, 2012
-SamayLive.com

A group of farmers began protests outside the residence of Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh in Delhi on Friday against the final draft of the Land Acquisition Bill .

Farmers  gathered outside the residence of Jairam Ramesh and  are protesting against the draft Land Acquisition Bill that was cleared for Parliament by the government last week.


The final draft of the  bill will now be placed before the Union Cabinet and is likely to be introduced in the winter session of the Parliament.

Farmers are of the view that the bill will deprive them of their land  and will make them more poor.Holding lpacards, farmers raised slogans against Ramesh and the bill demanding justice. They demanded an 'economic bill that will do justice to the farmers'.

 

Some changes have been made to the draft bill but farmers are not contended with the changes

The draft of the bill  approved by the Sharad Pawar-headed GoM now proposes consent of two-thirds of "land losers" (from whom land would be purchased) for acquiring land for public-private-partnership and private projects for public purpose.

 

Ramesh has  that the relief and rehabilitation provisions in the present Act that are in Schedule IV is brought at par with the bill. This bill is fully in compliance with both Panchayat Extension for Schedule Areas Act and Forest Rights Act.

Schedule IV refers to the mineral-rich forest areas dominated by tribals. The Bill says the central government can, by notification, give the compensation and relief and rehabilitation to those in Schedule IV on par with the Land Acquisition Bill.The new bill, meant to protect the rights of farmers, allows for the purchase of rural land only with the consent of the Panchayat.

 

The Land Acquisition Bill will have a provision for consent of two-third of land owners for acquiring land but no contentious retrospective clause as per the draft approved by a Group of Ministers in India on Tuesday after overcoming sharp differences.

The basic structure remains. Two-thirds consent of land owners is essential for PPP and for private projects for public purpose. There was consensus that the two-thirds consent clause should be there.

"Only after the two-thirds consent, the government acquires land for PPP or private projects for public purpose. Social Impact Assessment (SIA) provision remains," Ramesh said after the meeting. It has no retrospective clause and instead there will be a cut-off date to be decided later, he said.

"There is no clause about retrospective effect. You cannot have two laws operating at the same time. You cannot have one type of acquisition taking place under the 1894 Act and another sort taking place under the new Act. Therefore, we have to now think of a mechanism. We will have a cut-off date," Ramesh said.

SamayLive.com, 19 October, 2012, http://english4.samaylive.com/nation-news/676515768/jairam-ramesh-farmers-protests-land-acquisition-bill-gom-sharad-.html


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