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The Bill - Land acquisition bill 2015

Land Acquisition bill /change?




The five new categories

(a) such projects vital to national security or defence of India and every part thereof, including preparation for defence or defence production;

 (b) rural infrastructure including electrification;

 (c) affordable housing and housing for the poor people;

(d) industrial corridors set up by the appropriate Government and its undertakings (in which case the land shall be acquired up to one kilometer on both sides of designated railway line or roads for such industrial corridor); and

 (e) Infrastructure projects including projects under public private partnership where the ownership of land continues to vest with the Government:

These are exempted from the Chapter2 and chapter3 , that means social impact assessment test is not implied for the land taken for the above purposes, no provision to safeguard food security.

The other amendment with which we must be bothered is that, for the above five categories bill has removed the 80 and 70 percent consent of the landowners to acquire the land. 

Other amendments were necessary for the fast urbanisation and development of infrastructure in India.

Opinion:

But the above amendments give space for the exploiters and the land acquired can be misused. For the defence purposes some of the sections in chapter II can be skipped such as giving the land owner complete description of the project, but the social impact assessment must be done for the welfare of the people. Its the duty of the government to look into these matters. If these are not done, the very essence of the government and the system is lost.  
I believe this can be solved by
  1.  Mutual discussion of the all parties and recently center has said that state governments can form heir own rules for the land acquisition as per requirement. 
  2. Bring this bill to public debate.
  3. Use NITI Ayog to resolve these issues regarding Chapter III(A)
  4. Make a committee from each state to give their opinions. (Qualified members)
But not allowing the bill in the parliament without even trying to solve the issues is not the effective manner. Democracy is not for the latter, oppositions are there to point out the mistakes for the ruling, and assist them to correct but not halting the growth of the country for mere political benifits. 

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