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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Land acquisition: New relief board on cards -Subodh Ghildiyal

Land acquisition: New relief board on cards -Subodh Ghildiyal

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published Published on Aug 20, 2014   modified Modified on Aug 20, 2014
-The Times of India


NEW DELHI: The Centre is likely to set up a specialized agency to chart the resettlement and rehabilitation plan for families displaced by land acquisition.

The agency, tentatively called the 'R&R Board', will take care of all cases of acquisition as against the present system of the district collector appointing an 'administrator' in every district to work out the R&R plan where land is taken over.

Though still in the works, the board may be an all-powerful body with the mandate to hammer out the resettlement plan for the displaced. It may also be given the authority to decide if an acquisition requires Social Impact Assessment -- presently a mandatory process to determine the cost and rationale of acquisition.

Importantly, all linear projects may be exempted from the ambit of the land acquisition law. The Centre may, however, retain the provision that no land can be put to use until R&R has been settled.

Sources said the board would be a specialized body on the lines of central agencies with specific mandates like the National Disaster Response Force for calamities. Appointment of professionals at its head with ministerial status is being thought of to give it teeth.

While R&R provision in the land law passed by Congress government in 2013 is in for overhaul, sources said the compensation norms for land are likely to remain the same - four times of market rate in rural areas and twice in urban areas. An enabling provision may allow affected persons to decide the compensation by arriving at a mutually agreed price.

The idea for a separate board is backed on the ground that resettlement remains an intractable issue because it is decided by 'administrators' appointed on a case-to-case basis by district collectors while the task would be served better by a specialized agency.

For the NDA regime seeking to rewrite the 2013 law, it is felt a special R&R Board will underline the Centre's commitment to displaced persons. The need to correct the optics arises from the widespread belief that NDA is seeking to dismantle the safeguards for landowners to placate industry which has complained that the stringent law would result in delay.

The likelihood of letting the R&R Board decide on the need for SIA is significant. The 2013 law embedded SIA as a mandatory process in every acquisition, aimed at assessing its impact on common amenities, properties, settlements, and to determine if the area being taken over is the bare minimum required for the said project. The 2013 law also says the SIA report would be examined by an expert group.


The Times of India, 20 August, 2014, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Land-acquisition-New-relief-board-on-cards/articleshow/40453993.cms


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