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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | SEZs will need to meet Land Acquisition Bill norms: Jairam Ramesh

SEZs will need to meet Land Acquisition Bill norms: Jairam Ramesh

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published Published on Jul 10, 2012   modified Modified on Jul 10, 2012
-The Economic Times

Special Economic Zones will need to fulfill provisions of the proposed Land Acquisition and Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, if the rural development ministry has its way. 

The draft bill, currently being circulated for inter-ministerial consultation, does not exempt land acquired under the Special Economic Zones Act, 2005, Works of Defence Act, 1903, and Cantonments Act, 2006, from adhering to the acquisition, rehabilitation and resettlement provisions of the proposed legislation. 

Acquisition under 13 Central Acts will remain outside the purview of the proposed legislation. The Cabinet is expected to take up the bill for consideration by the end of the month, in time for its introduction in the monsoon session. 

The land acquisition bill introduced in Parliament last year exempted land acquired under 16 central Acts from its provisions (clause 98). The exempted Acts, listed in the bill's fourth schedule, included the Special Economic Zones Act, 2005, Works of Defence Act, 1903, and Cantonments Act, 2006, the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 1958, the Atomic Energy Act, 1962, the Metro Railways (Construction of Works) Act, 1978, the National Highways Act, 1956, and the Railways Act, 1989. 

The Parliamentary Standing Committee had suggested that clause 98 be dropped. The committee was of the unanimous view that the exemption should not be permitted as most of the land acquisition takes place in the mining, power and other infrastructure sectors, and as such all these acquisitions would find exemption under one or the other legislations listed in the fourth schedule. 

Keeping land acquisition under these 16 Acts out of the purview of the bill would mean that the proposed bill will be applicable to just about 5% of land acquisition. 

Earlier, rural development minister Jairam Ramesh had said that he was in susbtantial agreement with the standing committee's recommendation that these 16 central acts should have resettlement and rehabilitation provisions in line with the LARR bill. However, in the redrafting, the ministry has sought to retain the exemption for 13 Acts. 

The withdrawal of the exemption for two defence-related legislations would not present much of a hardship. In its deposition to the standing committee, the defence ministry made it clear that it did not seek exemption from the provisions of the bill and that it would undertake all compensatory provisions. 

Land for defence can be acquired under the bill's "special powers", which allows the government to acquire land, "for the defence of India or national security..."

The Economic Times, 10 July, 2012, http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/sezs-will-need-to-meet-land-acquisition-bill-norms-jairam-ramesh/articleshow/14793640.cms


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