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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Pranab Mukherjee invites Mamata Banerjee for talks on Land Acquisition (Amendment) Bill

Pranab Mukherjee invites Mamata Banerjee for talks on Land Acquisition (Amendment) Bill

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published Published on Oct 14, 2010   modified Modified on Oct 14, 2010

In an attempt to break the deadlock over the Land Acquisition (Amendment) Bill and the accompanying Resettlement and Rehabilitation Bill, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee has invited Trinamool Congress chief and railway minister Mamata Banerjee for talks on October 25.

Ms Banerjee, who has strong reservations over the twin pieces of legislation, is, as per Trinamool Congress sources, unlikely to relent. Ms Banerjee’s stand is that the state should have absolutely no role in land acquisition. Rural development minister C P Joshi, whose ministry is piloting the two bills, too, Trinamool sources said, has been called for the October 25 meeting.

The urgency to clear the roadblocks in the passage of the two bills stems from the UPA government’s anxiety to see them through during the forthcoming winter session of Parliament.

The two bills were introduced in the Lok Sabha on February 25 last year, but lapsed soon following the dissolution of the Lower House of Parliament. The government has, it is learnt, decided to introduce the old bills after incorporating a few changes.

The Centre, while indicating its readiness to weave in changes in the Resettlement and Rehabilitation Bill to ensure that the farmers were given the best-possible deal to make up for the loss of their land, said the two pieces of legislation had been modelled on the 2009 version, barring a few changes here and there.

The Land Acquisition (Amendment) Bill makes out a case for three categories of projects for which the government can acquire 100% land. These include establishment of installations pertaining to national security, infrastructure and facilities designated as “social infrastructure”, such as health, education and space research.

For any project other than the above, land could be acquired in the 70:30 ratio, with the company planning to set up the facility on that land being asked to purchase 70% of it. The state government would step into the picture only after the private player had done its bit, by agreeing to take over the remaining 30% if it felt the project fell in the “public purpose” domain.

The clause, which has been co-opted in the 2010 bill, is facing stiff resistance from the Trinamool Congress, an important component of the UPA. “The Centre or the state government should have no role in land acquisition,” minister of state for rural development Sisir Adhikari, who hails from the Trinamool stable, made it clear while speaking to newspersons last month.

He wanted the government to abide by the standing committee’s recommendation, which ruled out any role for private players in land acquisition, making the state the sole decision-maker.

The prime minister has now entrusted the finance minister to persuade the Trinamool Congress supremo to give up her opposition to the land acquisition bill. The government feels that, with Ms Banerjee set to storm the state in the assembly elections slated to be held in West Bengal next year, it’d be better for her to have a proper compensation package in place by then.


The Economic Times, 14 October, 2010, http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/Pranab-Mukherjee-invites-Mamata-Banerjee-for-talks-on-Land-Acquisition-Amendment-Bill/articleshow/6744981


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