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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Meet today to discuss land Bill, Haryana hopes it won’t be binding-Chitleen K Sethi

Meet today to discuss land Bill, Haryana hopes it won’t be binding-Chitleen K Sethi

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published Published on Oct 30, 2012   modified Modified on Oct 30, 2012
-The Indian Express

Chandigarh: Even as the Group of Ministers (GoM), led by Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, will meet on Tuesday to review once again the Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill-2011, Haryana is hoping that it will not be made mandatory for the Congress-led states. Severely critical of the proposals, officers involved in the process of land acquisition in the state point out that the Bill is “retrograde” and “impractical.”

Haryana has brought out a series of land acquisition policies since March 2005, the latest being the ‘Land Pooling Scheme’ — notified on August 14 — that offers the landowner a stake in the development carried out on his land. “If the current proposals in the Bill are not changed substantially, land acquisition in not just Haryana but in any other state will become almost impossible. What we are now offering as compensation in Haryana cannot be matched by the Bill proposed by the Centre,” a senior official said.

According to the new Bill, the process of acquisition is envisaged to commence with a Social Impact Assessment (SIA) of the area in which the land proposed for acquisition lies. “The SIA concept is borrowed from institutions like the World Bank and highly developed economies. In the Indian context it will lead to the subversion of the entire process by the speculative investors. The moment this `interest group’ comes to know that land is proposed to be acquired in an area, they would step in to buy it, may be at artificially inflated rates, to disturb the balance of price discovery and defeat the process,” said an officer.

Haryana’s town and country planning department is currently acquiring about 5,500 acres of land at various places in the state, mainly for infrastructure like roads, sewerage treatment plants and water supply. “While section 6 notification has been issued for almost 5,000 acres, another 500 acres has been notified under section 4. Only about 20-25 per cent of this land is for the development of new residential sectors,” said S S Dhillon, Principal Secretary (Town and Country Planning).

The industries department is currently acquiring land for a 3,500-acre logistics hub for the Bawal Industrial Area as part of the Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) project. “Another 3,300 acres are being acquired for the IMT at Kharkhoda and another 964 acres for IMT at Rohtak. These are the main projects among others. Since the new Bill is going to be implemented from the date of its notification, it is not going to impact the projects for which the acquisition process is already on,” said Y S Malik, Principal Secretary (Industries).

But the future projects in the state are likely to be affected substantially. Prescribing a limit on the acquisition of agricultural land is being considered to be a “non-implementable” proposition especially “in a state like Haryana, where 88 per cent land is arable, and of which 98 per cent is under cultivation.” “The proposition is ill founded,” an official said.

The Bill was introduced in the Parliament in September 2011. It was referred to a Parliamentary Standing Committee, which submitted its proposals in May. These were then referred to a GoM last month. The GoM approved the draft Bill last week and forwarded it to the Cabinet for consent.

The Indian Express, 30 October, 2012, http://www.indianexpress.com/news/meet-today-to-discuss-land-bill-haryana-hopes-it-won-t-be-binding/1023974/


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