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Govt to strip land bill of sticky clauses, let states decide

-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Centre is likely to work out the contours of the reworked Land acquisition bill by next week amid indications that it may be purged of all the politically unpopular provisions. It is learnt that the Modi government may allow states to draft their own acquisition laws with the frame of reference being the central law which would only have "pro-people" measures; a tack aimed at...

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Why the Modi government must work on land reform before Land acquisition -Anisa Draboo

-Scroll.in Rural landlessness, the strongest indicator of poverty, which afflicts a third of Indians, can be eradicated if the government acted on pending bills and policy recommendations. India’s economy has already crossed $2 trillion and is growing annually at around 6%. But these figures cannot hide the fact that 69% of the population is rural, and 70% of this, or nearly half of all Indians, still depend on land and land-based activities...

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PM relents, may agree to amend Land Bill -Puja Mehra & Smita Gupta

-The Hindu To help break the impasse on the Bill, the Cabinet decided on adding a provision to enable the States to frame and pass their own laws. The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, deliberated on Tuesday a proposal to amend the Land Bill to give flexibility to the States to frame their own laws for Land acquisition, a demand various Chief Ministers aired at the July 15 meeting...

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NDA govt is governing country by ordinance raj: NGOs tell SC -Amit Anand Choudhary

-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Challenging repromulgation of Land acquisition ordinance by Narendra Modi government, three Delhi-based NGOs and Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) on Thursday told the Supreme Court that government was trying to "govern the country by ordinance raj" which was not permissible. Appearing before a bench headed by Justice JS Khehar, senior advocate Indira Jaising said that the govt is making mockery of the constitution by bringing ordinances when...

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Land talks ire at Centre

-The Telegraph New Delhi: Several members of a joint House panel examining the Land acquisition bill today slammed the government for holding "parallel" discussions on the same bill in the Niti Aayog, calling it an "insult to Parliament". Their criticism came a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who chaired a meeting of the governing council of the Aayog, warned the Opposition that the deadlock over the bill was "seriously" impacting rural...

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