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Rural deprivation -Indira Rajaraman

-Livemint.com The problem with the SECC is the absence of cross-tabulations showing the intersections between the seven deprivation sets The original intent of the Socio-Economic and Caste Census (SECC), whose findings for rural India were made public in June, was to collect information on economic and caste identifiers for access to subsidized food under the National Food Security Act of 2013, and to define a priority set with higher access and...

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Modi sees land bill freeze loss for east -Radhika Ramaseshan

-The Telegraph New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi believes that the biggest losers of the deadlock over the Centre's Land acquisition bill would be Bengal, Odisha and Bihar, sources close to him have said. Whether the bill is blocked or passed in a watered-down version, it will hobble his ambitions of bringing the eastern states on a par economically with the western states, they explained. If the Modi government fails to evolve a...

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Land Bill: Govt capitulates on social impact, consent clauses

-Business Standard Ruling party MPs suggest changes to six of the nine amendments proposed by govt to the 2013 Act The government is set to relent on the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Amendment) Bill, 2015. On Monday, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) members of a parliamentary joint committee on the Bill suggested amendments that effectively bring back the social impact assessment and consent clauses,...

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Land bill: Modi govt gives in, agrees to bring back UPA’s key provisions -Pradeep Kaushal & Ruhi Tewari

-The Indian Express Sources said all the 11 BJP members in the Joint Committee of Parliament on land bill on Monday moved amendments seeking to bring back social impact assessment and consent clause. In a major climbdown following sustained opposition pressure, the government on Monday agreed to drop most of its contentious amendments to the Land acquisition Act of 2013, bringing back the crucial clauses related to consent of affected families...

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Govt land law climbdown

-The Telegraph New Delhi: A joint parliamentary committee has favoured restoring most of the provisions of the UPA's 2013 land law into the Land acquisition bill the Centre wants to pass, signalling a climb-down by the government. Sources said that even the BJP members on the 30-member panel had favoured scrapping the exemptions that the NDA's current bill provided from the social impact assessment (SIA) and consent provisions. This would not have been...

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