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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Land Bill to be renamed with focus on compensation-Ravish Tiwari

Land Bill to be renamed with focus on compensation-Ravish Tiwari

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published Published on Jul 11, 2012   modified Modified on Jul 11, 2012
-The Indian Express

In keeping with Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council's social welfare approach of rights-based entitlement, the government plans to rename the Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (LARR) legislation as the Right to Compensation, Resettlement, Rehabilitation and Transparency in Land Acquisition Act (RTCRRTLA).

The Department of Land Resources under Jairam Ramesh has suggested moving an official amendment to rename the Bill that was introduced in Parliament last September.

The draft note suggests varying the compensation towards the value of land being acquired based on the distance of land from urban areas. According to the original Bill, the compensation would have been two times the market value of land acquired in urban areas while the same would be four times the market value in rural areas. This would have led to a situation to rural areas on the outskirts of urban areas fetching four times the market value while the adjacent land falling under urban area being eligible for only two times the market value despite little difference in the market value of the two adjacent land.

Consequently, the Department has proposed introducing an amendment to provide for a 'sliding scale' of compensation "based on the distance of project from urban area". According to the proposal, land falling within 10 km radius of the urban area will get two times the market value while land falling within 40-50 km radius will fetch four times the market value as compensation with land falling in between getting proportional increase.

The RTCRRTLA Act will grant state governments a flexibility to prescribe the floor level of private land purchases over which a minimum level of rehabilitation and resettlement burden will have to be incurred by private purchases.

The renamed Bill seeks to remove the exemption granted to the SEZ Act, 2005, in the original Bill, along with two other laws -- Cantonment Act, 2006, Works of Defence Act, 1903 -- from complying with the LARR Bill provisions. According to the draft circulated to different departments, the RTCRRTLA Act will have overriding force over these three laws while providing exemption to the other 13 from the original list of 16. However, the other 13 will have to be amended in next two years to comply with the RTCRRTLA Act.

The revised Bill, sent for comments, also seeks to reduce the time limit for land acquired being unutilised from previous 10 years to five years after which it will return to the land bank.

The Indian Express, 11 July, 2012, http://www.indianexpress.com/news/land-bill-to-be-renamed-with-focus-on-compensation/972928/


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