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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Sonia council sets acquisition terms by Radhika Ramaseshan

Sonia council sets acquisition terms by Radhika Ramaseshan

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published Published on May 26, 2011   modified Modified on May 26, 2011
The Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council has proposed that landowners should be paid six times the registered sale deed value as compensation and a solatium in case of compulsory acquisition by the state.

The council sat through the day today firming up recommendations for the land acquisition bill the Centre plans to introduce in the next session of Parliament. Sonia was present for nearly six hours.

It also proposed that compensation should be paid not just to owners but all those who would lose their livelihood if the land was bought. For them, the council proposed a grant amounting to 10 days’ minimum wages every month for 33 years.

The cash and other assets should be paid into accounts held jointly by men and women to minimise the chances of men blowing up the money, it said.

On a day rural development minister Vilasrao Deshmukh spoke out against the proposal, the Sonia-led council repeated the need for one comprehensive law that would integrate the Land Acquisition (Amendment) Bill, 2009, and the Resettlement and Rehabilitation Bill, 2009.

The council also said the government should first explore the option of acquiring “less fertile and waste lands” before turning to agricultural land and that the acquisition should be for “public purposes” only. This covers strategic and infrastructure uses and “social services” like education and health care.

Asked if commercial use was ruled out, council member and former bureaucrat Harsh Mander, who piloted the draft, said: “Some details have to be worked out. How does protectionism come in when the private sector is in the picture? If industry wants to acquire land beyond a certain conceivable limit, how will the government ensure that it will compensate the landless? The legalities need to be explained.”

Although the press note was silent, a source said another former bureaucrat N.C. Saxena argued that private buyers should be allowed to acquire land without governmental mediation only in limited purchases that do not impact more than 400 families. Beyond that, there should be government intervention.

Other members felt even government-implemented acquisitions require close monitoring because the “notion of government as protector” was challenged with “increasing evidence of high-level collaboration with private buyers”.

The council recommended that if the acquired land was resold, the original owners should get a 25 per cent share of the transaction.

If land acquired for a public purpose was not used within five years, it should be returned to its original owners, the council added.

Sonia’s council said the urgency clause should not be invoked unless land had to be taken over for “national security and defence use”.

The council also had on its radar today a central law that recommended that two per cent of all urban land be earmarked for street vending.

The Telegraph, 26 May, 2011, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110526/jsp/nation/story_14031809.jsp


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