Friday, 6 February 2015

The ordinance on land acquisition



The article by Michael Levien, in The Hindu published on 4th feb  “dispossession, development and democracy, “raises many relevant concerns confronting the land owning class of India after the  passage of the Ordinance meant to dilute many provisions of LARR.  Any development model should incorporate the principle of equity through inclusiveness . But the  Indian “model of development,” followed in recent decades has only enriched the corporate sector at the expense  of the land owning class. Moreover, is it not waste of public money, parliament’s time when, a  core legislation like LARR passed by the previous government “with bipartisan support after seven years of public debate and revision,” is diluted through an Ordinance? Is it not true that the windfall profits accrue only the buyers of vast stretches of land  for various purposes including non development purposes and not to the land owners?

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