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Right reasons to get hitched -TV Somanathan and Gulzar Natarajan

-The Indian Express A headlong rush into ppps will only leave a trail of disputes, renegotiations, corruption. The conventional wisdom in India on public-private partnerships (ppps) is that they help governments raise capital to meet large infrastructure investment targets. But this rationale for promoting ppps does not stand on strong foundations. There are three potential reasons for supporting ppps. First, they enable governments to access more capital without visibly breaching fiscal targets. In...

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Land Ahoy!

-Tehelka Bureau Though well-meaning, the new Land Acquisition Act is far from being a perfect legislation. But the urgency to amend a law even before a real field test signals a larger agenda. By all counts, this was expected. Long before he became the BJP and subsequently the nation's chosen one, Narendra Modi had made it clear that his model of development gains from the ease of doing business. Then, days ahead...

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Government calls all-party meet to relook on Land Acquisition Act

-The Economic Times Most state governments have sought a relook at UPA's Land Acquisition Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013, pushing the Centre into convening an all-party meet, probably as early as the next fortnight. A consensus at the meeting of all parties heading state governments will let the Centre amend the law in the current monsoon session itself. This revision of the land law is imperative for the Centre to execute major infrastructure...

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Govt likely to bring about sea change in land bill -Brajesh Kumar

-The Hindustan Times The rural development ministry would be asking the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) to relax norms to acquire land for projects by scrapping mandatory consent provision for public private partnership (ppp) projects and reducing it to 50% from the existing 80% for private acquisition. The slew of changes in the land acquisition law 2013 for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's approval means that consent of half of the affected families would...

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'Vidarbha farmers will continue to find suicide more attractive' -Ramu Bhagwat

-The Times of India   NAGPUR: Several new components like stress on irrigation in dry-land areas, price stabilization fund, bringing landless farmers in pale of institutional finance through NABARD for working on leased lands, allowing MGNREGA in farm work have won bouquets for finance minister Arun Jaitley from farm activists. "Move to set up a national market for farm produce, micro irrigation and watershed schemes in drought-prone regions, crop loan facilities to landless...

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