-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday sought the Centre's response in four weeks to a PIL challenging the validity of the land acquisition ordinance but hoped that the Narendra Modi government would revert to legislative process soon and render the PIL "infructuous". Three Delhi-based NGOs — Delhi Grameen Samaj, Gram Sewa Samiti and Chogama Vikas Avam Kalyan Samiti — and Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) have challenged the...
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UPA Act helps owners reclaim land -Abhinav Garg & Dipak Kumar Dash
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: As the NDA government's land bill remains stuck in a logjam with the opposition stonewalling it in Rajya Sabha, it's the UPA's 2013 law that has for now benefitted a section of landowners in Delhi. In a series of judgments pronounced in recent months (as late as March), the Delhi high court has scrapped acquisition of several acres of land in Delhi by government agencies, some...
More »Lack of Clarity and Vision in New Mines and Minerals Act -EAS Sarma
-Economic and Political Weekly Much has been claimed on behalf of the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Act that has been enacted by Parliament, but the legislation has introduced a watered-down version of auctions, has many exceptions to legalise the old first-cum-firstserve approach, and ignores previous Supreme Court rulings on measures to ensure sustainable development. E A S Sarma (eassarma@gmail.com) is a former Union Power Secretary. With a brute majority in...
More »Supreme Court to hear plea against re-promulgated Land Ordinance on Monday
-PTI NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today agreed to hear on Monday the plea of farmers' organisations challenging legality of the fresh promulgation of the land acquisition ordinance by the Narendra Modi-led government. "We will have it on Monday," a bench comprising Chief Justice H L Dattu and Justice Arun Mishra said, when senior advocate Indira Jaisingh, appearing for farmers' organisations sought urgent hearing of the petition. The farmers' organisations, in their plea...
More »Govt pushes land bill, yet vast swathes of acquired land lie unused
-Hindustan Times New Delhi: The BJP-led NDA government showed great speed in promulgating an ordinance to push through the land acquisition act, but an investigation by HT reveals that thousands of hectares of land acquired by the government is lying unused in several states. Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh top the list of states where land acquired even decades ago has not been industrialised. In the past 50 years, for instance, the...
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