Rather than shutting its doors on ‘civil society’, the government should be thanking its stars that the latter wants to make law, not war. Distributing tee-shirts with this slogan would be a better use of the government’s ‘hearts and minds’ funds than the integrated action plan to counter Naxals, or the army’s tourism trips to Pune for Kashmiri schoolgirls. The UPA regime has been unprecedented for the spate of legislation that...
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Dump archaic Land Acquisition Act: SC by Dhananjay Mahapatra
The Supreme Court on Monday told the government to dump the archaic Land Acquisition Act to prevent Nandigram-like violent protests in every state, sounding the warning that it would step in to safeguard public interest if the authorities failed to do the needful. "The perspective has to change. The public purpose clause in the 1894 Act must go. If the government does not do it, then this court has to act....
More »Supreme Court slams U.P. over land acquisition
-PTI To step in to prevent “more Nandigrams” The Supreme Court on Monday criticised the Uttar Pradesh government for acquiring prime agricultural land to build luxury flats in Greater Noida and questioned the invoking of an urgency clause that bars farmers from raising objections. It noted it would step in to prevent “more Nandigrams.” “Whose residential use are these flats for? Who is building them? What are the prices? We want to...
More »Equivalent quantum of land for unwilling owners
-The Hindu The West Bengal government on Monday tabled the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Rules Act, 2011, which gives the government the option of giving unwilling land owners at the disputed plot at Singur a quantum of land equivalent to what they had lost. The Rules, which were laid in the Legislative Assembly by State Industry Minister Partha Chatterjee, defines an unwilling owner as someone who owns a plot of...
More »West Bengal government files caveat in SC over Singur land law
-The Economic Times West Bengal government on Monday filed a caveat in Supreme Court so that no petition by Tata Motors Ltd (TML) over the Singur land issue is heard on ex-parte basis. The move was made subsequent to TML counsel Samaraditya Pal's efforts to (a) first get an exparte ad-interim stay on land distribution at Singur which was turned down by Justice Soumitra Pal (b) then appeal to a...
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