Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
The West Bengal Government will commence its arguments opposing the petition filed by Tata Motors, beginning Wednesday. The auto major in its petition before the Calcutta High Court challenged the constitutional validity of the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act 2011. The Advocate-General of West Bengal, Mr Anindya Mitra, will …
As Parliament debates this month it will, hopefully, move beyond issues of corruption in high places to important economic legislation. Two such pieces of legislation are the land acquisition bill and the bill for a new regulatory body for higher education. In this month’s column I will take up the …
The Odisha High Court on Tuesday reserved judgment on a petition seeking quashing of the land acquisition proceedings undertaken for the Posco steel plant proposed to be set up at Paradip in Jagatsinghpur district. The two-judge bench of Chief Justice V Gopala Gowda and Justice B N Mohapatra reserved judgment …
Seeing the agitations by farmers in neighbouring Uttar Pradesh and Haryana bear fruit, the Delhi farmers have also started uniting to demand better compensation packages and seek some share of the developed land which is acquired from them for carrying out various development activities. A large number of farmers from …
One of the key challenges in the development of infrastructure in India is the acquisition of land necessary for the projects. Land acquisition techniques adopted across a variety of other countries are reviewed in this paper. Although no single “best practice” exists, viewing land acquisition practices through a framework of …
The Tata Motors' counsel, Mr Samaraditya Pal, on Friday argued before the Calcutta High Court that the Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act, 2011, does not define the ‘public purpose' for which land was being taken back by the State. The Singur Act also sought to return land to “unwilling …
Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Thursday said a Bill on land acquisition that integrated the 1894 Land Acquisition Act and the Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act would be introduced in the current session of Parliament and the draft was being circulated to Chief Ministers, leaders of political parties and others …
The Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act 2011 seeks to discriminate between willing and unwilling farmers and is, hence, inconsistent with the Land Acquisition Act, 1894. It also seeks to benefit a “politically activated” group, the Tatas' counsel, Mr Samaraditya Pal, argued before the Calcutta High Court on Monday. “The …
The Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act 2011 seeks to discriminate between willing and unwilling farmers and is, hence, inconsistent with the Central Land Acquisition Act, 1894, Tatas’ counsel, Mr Samaraditya Pal, argued before the Calcutta High Court on Monday. “There is no such concept of willing and unwilling farmers …
A brainstorming meeting on forthcoming Bills on land, food, seeds and pesticides was stunned into silence when two participating farmers hit out at the government for the manner in which they were being displaced from their fertile land to satisfy the needs of corporates. “The archaic Land Acquisition Bill is …
Land use change in Rajasthan resulting in perpetual threat of eviction to local communities: Activists Civil rights activists addressing a convention on land acquisition and displacement here on Wednesday registered a strong protest against “land use change” at several places in Rajasthan resulting in perpetual threat of eviction to the …
This draft Bill seeks to balance the need for facilitating land acquisition for various public purposes including infrastructure development, industrialisation and urbanisation, while at the same time meaningfully addressing the concerns of farmers and those whose livelihoods are dependent on the land being acquired.The issue of who acquires land is …
The Allahabad High Court on Tuesday set aside yet another land acquisition by the Greater Noida Industrial Authority. Using the urgency clause, the Authority had acquired 589 hectares of land in Patwari village, in Noida Extension, in the name of industrial development but had given it away to private builders …
JAIPUR: The Jaipur Development Authority's (JDA) dream to launch its biggest housing scheme at Ninder fall flats as the authorities are facing problems in acquiring land, a majority of whom are private land owners. In December 2010, the JDA had proposed this scheme on 1,100 bighas of land at Ninder …
Questions invocation of urgency clause for land acquisition in Greater Noida In a setback for the Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh, the Supreme Court on Monday raised serious reservations over the state administration
Mamata government initiates process to give land back to farmers. Mamata Banerjee The West Bengal government has set the ball rolling for distribution of land to the
An analysis of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 and its interpretation by the courts shows that the holder or tenant of the land has suffered in major ways. It gives the government complete power to acquire land for any “public purpose” while the courts have virtually adopted a handsoff attitude …
