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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | ‘Sangharsh' holds dharna against displacement, land acquisition by Jiby Kattakayam

‘Sangharsh' holds dharna against displacement, land acquisition by Jiby Kattakayam

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published Published on Nov 22, 2010   modified Modified on Nov 22, 2010

Activist Medha Patkar addressing a rally in New Delhi on Monday against the land acquisition policy of the UPA government.

“Sangharsh,” a collective platform of social movements and people's organisations fighting displacement and forcible land acquisition, began a five-day dharna at Jantar Mantar here on Monday.

Representatives of people's movements from Assam to Tamil Nadu participated in the “Sansad Gherao” dharna. Among the struggles highlighted was the Assam-based Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti's (KMSS) agitation against construction of dams in Assam and other regions of the northeast.

Addressing the gathering, Narmada Bachao Andolan leader Medha Patkar denounced the absence of meaningful participatory processes in development planning. She demanded that the “prior, informed consent” of gram sabhas in rural areas and basti sabhas in urban areas be made a pre-requisite for land acquisition.

‘Suggestions ignored'

Ms. Patkar was critical of the Union Rural Development Ministry for ignoring the recommendations of Parliamentary Standing Committees in the drafting of the Land Acquisition (Amendment) Bill 2009 and the Resettlement and Rehabilitation Bill, 2009.

“Sangharsh” also released its “critical assessment and recommendations” on both the Bills which, it said, was evolved with the participation of its 150 constituent people's movements.

The protesters were particularly critical of the definition of “public purpose” in the Land Acquisition Bill, 2009 which, they said, was turning out to be worse than the controversial British-era Land Acquisition Act, 1894.

They said the proposed amendment also subsumed within the definition of “public purpose” land purchased by private individuals or companies, which would be used to discriminate in favour of corporations and politically influential classes.

Besides Ms. Patkar, the dharna was also addressed by veteran journalist Kuldip Nayar, forest rights activist Ashok Choudhury and KMSS leader Akhil Gogoi.


The Hindu, 23 November, 2010, http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article906194.ece


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