NAC favours gram sabha nod for private project

  • 27/05/2011

  • Times Of India (New Delhi)

NEW DELHI: The National Advisory Council's recommendation that all private projects must secure consent from 70% of members of all affected gram sabhas before land acquisition is permitted promises to become the biggest headache for the industry if accepted. As of now, such provisions only exist for forest land under the Forest Rights Act and they too have been observed mostly in breach. The most prominent case where the government