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Land
@alok227 A compromised consensus
Issue Date: May 15, 2013
AFTER 19 months of intense negotiations between the ruling United Progressive Alliance government and opposition parties, the Land Acquisition (Rehabilitation and Resettlement) Bill of 2011 is close to being passed by Parliament. On April 18, the government claimed that all major political parties have reached a “broad consensus” on the Bill.
Letters - April 15-31, 2013
Issue Date: Apr 30, 1996
Passive Choice
Long road to justice
Issue Date: Feb 15, 2013
With most political parties having set their sights on the 2014 national elections, the Congress-led UPA government is surely hoping for a repeat of the 2009 miracle. A good part of the credit for the 2009 victory has been given to progressive legislation like the employment guarantee Act. It is no surprise then that the Congress is looking at more such pieces of legislation before the country goes to the polls.
Prize for tiller, loss for industry
Issue Date: Jun 15, 2012
THE STATE should never acquire land for ventures that involve any element of profit. This is one of the radical recommendations made by a parliamentary panel in its report on the Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill of 2011.
Submitted on May 17 by the Parliamentary Standing Committee for Rural Development, the report proposes complete overhaul of provisions in the Bill (see table).
Born at 44
Issue Date: Feb 29, 2012
They say home is where the heart is, but that’s not always true. Ask Arakhita Pradhan, resident of Chilipoi village in Odisha’s Ganjam district. On a cold evening some 44 years ago, the authorities forcefully shifted him and his neighbours to a place where no civic amenities existed. Reason: the state had built an irrigation dam that had submerged their village in Khurda district.
Road to disaster
Issue Date: Jun 15, 2011
Acheja, a small farming village in Gautam Budh Nagar district in western Uttar Pradesh, had never seen such a large congregation as it did on May 12. The venue was a rice mill. Its verandah was crammed with farmers in white kurta pyjamas and Gandhi caps. They were discussing the recent violence in the area in high-pitched voices. Once in a while, the crowd shouted: “Jab tak dukhi kisan rahega, dharti par toofan rahega (As long as farmers are unhappy, the earth will be in turmoil).”
1,620.361 ha of discontent
Issue Date: Jul 31, 2008
Brazil rejected posco; why is Orissa so interested
South Korean steel giant posco's proposed steel plant hangs in virtual limbo. Popular resistance by the posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti has rendered land acquisition for the Rs 51,000 crore project--hailed as a foreign direct investment coup--quite impossible.
Where’s Bhoodan Land?
Posted on: 31 Oct, 2011
Government prefers not to talk about the 931,000 ha collected under land-gift movement
