-IANS The land acquisition bill was on Thursday tabled in the Lok Sabha amidst chaos with the opposition parties demanding a statement from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the depreciation of the rupee against the dollar. As the house resumed following an hour-long adjournment, Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh introduced the land acquisition and rehabilitation bill to be taken up for consideration. The members of various political parties continued demanding that the...
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Reviving Land Reforms?-Harsh Mander
-Economic and Political Weekly The government has notified a Draft Land Reforms Policy which, on paper, has all the requisites of an earnest programme. Yet, the near total failure of earlier efforts at land reforms in India leave little room for hope that something substantial will at last be done to combat landlessness. Harsh Mander (manderharsh@gmail.com) is with the Centre for Equity Studies, New Delhi, and works with survivors of mass violence,...
More »Haryana CM Hooda dismisses Ashok Khemka’s allegations
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Monday refuted allegations levelled by IAS officer AshokKhemka that the beneficiaries of land deals in Faridabad included his "aunt". Hooda also rejected allegations of irregularities in land deals levelled by Khemka in his recent communique to the chief secretary. Hooda said while the woman mentioned by Khemka was an inhabitant of his native village Sanghi, she was no relative...
More »House to take up land Bill tomorrow
-The Indian Express The government has lined up the Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2011 for consideration on Tuesday. The Bill, piloted by Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh, is intended "to ensure a humane, participatory, informed, consultative and transparent process for land acquisition for industrialisation, development of essential infrastructural facilities and urbanisation with the least disturbance to owners of the land and other affected families." The legislation seeks to provide "just...
More »Bonded Labour System still a reality -Urmi A Goswami
-The Economic Times NEW DELHI: After losing her husband to an illness, Jeyanthi (name changed) was forced to step in as the bread earner for her six young children. With no education, work was hard to come by for her, and existence was at bare subsistence levels. Jeyanthi got by, working as a casual labourer; and as her sons became older, they too pitched in. Life was to take a nastier...
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