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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Rethink on exemptions -Radhika Ramaseshan

Rethink on exemptions -Radhika Ramaseshan

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published Published on Feb 22, 2015   modified Modified on Feb 22, 2015
-The Telegraph

New Delhi: The Centre is likely to make key changes to the land acquisition ordinance in the face of gathering protests from multiple flanks and a nudge by Swadeshi affiliates.

A clause that expanded the list of projects exempted from prior consent of affected families and a social impact assessment is expected to be done away with, said sources privy to discussions that have been going on through the week.

The government is also expected to review a provision that allows speciality hospitals and public schools - both meant for the affluent - to be set up on cultivable and irrigated land. The government is now thinking of earmarking such projects for fallow and non-irrigated land.

The ordinance was promulgated in December after the NDA government failed to push through amendments to the law, which had been passed during UPA rule.

The new government is planning to include the provisions of the ordinance in a bill that will be tabled during the budget session that begins on February 23. The provisions are now expected to undergo some changes.

The Congress is planning to make the land ordinance an issue in Parliament, and Anna Hazare has flagged off a march of the landless and small farmers to Delhi to protest against the ordinance.

The Centre was also prodded to revisit the ordinance by RSS constituents such as the Bharatiya Kisan Sangh, the Swadeshi Jagran Manch and the Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh.

Earlier in the week, the leaders of these constituents met RSS seniors at Keshav Kunj, the Sangh's headquarters in Delhi, and registered their objections "strongly". At the core was the complaint that the Narendra Modi government and the BJP had acquired an "anti-farmer" image.

BJP president Amit Shah was summoned by the Sangh and told to convey to the Centre that the bill would have to depart from the ordinance "substantially". Sources said Shah was bluntly told that the ordinance was "unacceptable".

Shah met finance minister Arun Jaitley and Ramlal, the BJP's general secretary (organisation) and the party's main conduit with the RSS.

The representatives of the Sangh wings also called on Ram Madhav, the BJP general secretary who was previously an RSS pracharak (whole-timer) and is assumed to have a certain "comfort" level with Nagpur. They were joined by the members of the Ekta Parishad, which is spearheading the march to Delhi.

Others present at the meeting with Madhav were rural development minister Chaudhary Birendra Singh, home minister Rajnath Singh and Jaitley.

This evening, delegates from the Ekta Parishad and the Sangh affiliates gathered at Rajnath's home for discussions. External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj and Birendra Singh were also drafted in.

When the ordinance was adopted, the government's pitch was that it had been crafted with farmers' interests in mind. However, the exemptions generated a perception that the ordinance was "industry-friendly".

Sources said the Sangh's move to get more aggressive towards the government was a product of the "bandwagon" effect because it did not wish to feel "left out" of any storm that Hazare might whip up.


The Telegraph, 22 February, 2015, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1150222/jsp/nation/story_4833.jsp#.VOli8S7xxpA


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