-Hindkisan.com Farmers allege that the company had not taken possession of the land they sold two decades ago and demanded the company to initiate new acquisition proceedings as per provision of Land Acquisition Act, 2013. The Act prescribes that an agency or entity has to initiate fresh proceedings to acquire a plot if the agency did not take the possession of the land for more than five years. Tear gas shells fired,...
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UDAY scheme: Tamil Nadu ranked lowest on performance power distribution companies -Sanjay Vijayakumar
-The Hindu UDAY scheme: Tamil Nadu ranked lowest on performance power distribution companies Chennai: UDAY review finds little progress made in smart metering. Tamil Nadu has been ranked lowest in terms of State distribution companies’ quarterly performance as of December 2017, post joining the Centre’s Ujwal DISCOM Assurance Yojana (UDAY). The State had joined the scheme over a year ago. The scheme, covering 31 States and Union Territories, emphasises both financial turnaround and...
More »In Odisha's Single Window Clearance System, a Compromise for the Ease of Doing Business -Arpitha Kodiveri
-TheWire.in While synergising state and business interests through ‘single window’ mechanisms helps investors, it can compromise the role of regulatory agencies like the state pollution control board. On November 16 ,2017 Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik launched an online system called GO-SWIFT for supporting the state’s existing ‘single-window clearance system’. Odisha continues to be ranked high among different states in India on the ease of doing business index. It is part of a...
More »The salience of the Singur verdict -Suhrith Parthasarathy
-The Hindu A more progressive Central law on land acquisition is now in place, but several States have already either amended the new law or enacted legislation of their own. On August 31, the Supreme Court in Kedar Nath Yadav v. State of West Bengal delivered one of the most momentous decisions of the year. It invalidated the expropriation of land in Singur by the erstwhile Left Front government in Bengal, and...
More »Flood leaves 150 Uttarakhand villages without power -Yogesh Kumar & Arpita Chakrabarty
-The Times of India DEHRADUN/ ALMORA: Over 900 villages across the state had plunged into darkness when cloudbursts and incessant rains hit Uttarakhand on July 1. Of these, around 150 are still in the dark. Senior officials of the Uttarakhand Power Corporation Limited (UPCL) said on Monday that the scale of damage to transmission lines was "unprecedented" . "The strong winds and continued rains snapped many poles and supply lines were also...
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