States need to rethink their land acquisition policies One of the most prickly nettles for governments in India today is land acqusition for industry. The Centre is drafting a new Bill on the issue, but land is a state subject, and different states have different land acquisition policies. The Bill can at best provide an enabling framework. In the first of a two-part series, Business Standard takes a look at the scenario in Orissa, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh Industrial projects require sizeable tracts of land. But land is an emotive issue in an agrarian country and people are not willing to cede the land on which they grew up