Affidavit filed by Chhattisgarh East West Railway Limited in the matter of Sudiep Shrivastava Vs Union of India & Others dated 15/04/2025. The appeal was disposed of by the NGT, April 29, 2019. However, the order was challenged before the Supreme Court (SC). The SC, November 26, 2024 disposed of …
The model relies on high property taxes and expensive public services. At the first-ever workshop on the Smart City Mission hosted for mayors and commissioners, Urban Development Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu on Thursday said the government’s urban renewal policies were designed to accommodate the urban poor. Yet his views contradicted …
The move comes despite three rounds of inter-ministerial consultations on the Seeds Bill, during which all ministries agreed to its major provisions, including five recent amendments. It’s not just the Land Acquisition Bill, the NDA government has also put on hold proposed amendments to the Seeds Bill, mainly due to …
- Manipur district under curfew Imphal: Seven persons have been killed in Churachandpur district since last night while protesting against amendment to the Manipur land law, prompting the administration to impose curfew till 5am tomorrow. While three protesters died in police firing today, four died during last night's arson and …
THE High Court’s Land Division has dismissed the suit lodged by 285 famers from Mvomero District in Morogoro Region, who were seeking, among others, payments of 10bn/- compensation for allegedly forceful eviction from their lands in favour of Maasai pastoralists. Judge Gadi Mjemmas ruled in favour of defendants, the Director, …
Can there be a better way to frame land acquisition in favour of farmers? Perhaps the value of land needs to be fixed at intervals and projected in a five year step.
Some in NDA want to wait till Bihar polls As the crucial Bihar Assembly polls get closer, the confusion within the government on repromulgation of the Land Acquisition Ordinance seems to be growing. While a section wants it to lapse since the proposed legislation has been bitterly opposed by the …
Agricultural lands in Odisha were converted for non-agricultural purposes without going into the merits of each case, pointed out the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India. The CAG report, which was tabled in the State Assembly recently, says in 273 conversion cases (60 per cent) involving conversion of 300.707 …
BENGALURU: If Namma Metro is expected to ease Whitefield's traffic woes, then the technology hub will have to wait for at least five years before the train starts rolling in. Forget meeting the 2017-18 deadline to complete the 72-km network in Phase II, Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation hasn't begun preliminary …
The NDA government's rewrite of the land bill, though slammed for being “anti-farmer“, attempts to correct more than 50 drafting and typographical errors, omissions and contradictions that actually defeat the law's “pro-poor“ intent by denying farmers and tribals benefits of fair and enhanced compensation. Apart from political battles over consent …
Maximum number of clearances came for the Eastern Coalfields The coal sector has been a major beneficiary of streamlining of environment clearance processes with some 130 million tonne (mt) of additional production capacity being made available. Union government-controlled Coal India Ltd (CIL) has got 44 projects off the ground after …
VISAKHAPATNAM, AUG 18: Land acquisition for any project is a major hurdle, especially if the interests of farmers are involved, but the Andhra Pradesh Government seems to have done it with a fair degree of ease for the establishment of Amaravati, the new capital. More than 30,000 acres of land …
Judgement of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of M/S. Soorajmull Nagarmull Vs State of Bihar & Others dated 17/08/2015 regarding acquisition of land under Section 17 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894. The Respondent State initiated acquisition proceedings in 1981 by Notifications under Section 4 and Section …
Despite incessant rains, several tribals under the banner of the CPI (M) demonstrated before the Thuamul Rampur tehsil office in Kalahandi district of Odisha on Wednesday to protest against their patta land being handed over to Utkal Alumina of Aditya Birla group, without their consent. The agitators were led by …
Though Cidco recently received an environmental clearance to develop 43 acres in Vadghar for those affected by the Navi Mumbai airport project, the agency's green troubles are far from over as 1,217 hectares of land, worth around Rs 30,000 crore according to a modest estimate, is yet to receive a …
A second draft framework of the World Bank, for environmental and social safeguards policies, is said to “vastly weaken protections for affected communities and the environment at the same time as the bank intends to finance more high-risk projects,” and it could have a serious impact in India, which is …
Ruling party MPs suggest changes to six of the nine amendments proposed by govt to the 2013 Act The government is set to relent on the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Amendment) Bill, 2015. On Monday, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) members of …
लंबे अरसे से लैंड बिल पास कराने के लिए जद्दोजहद कर रही केंद्र सरकार ने आखिरकार विपक्ष के 6 बदलावों को मान लिया है । नतीजतन, अब यह बिल कुछ प्रावधानों को छोड़कर यूपीए के लैंड बिल जैसा ही है। दरअसल, भूमि अधिग्रहण के दायरे में आने वाले लोगों की …
VARANASI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Clean Ganga Mission is getting delayed in his own parliamentary constituency of Varanasi as the protest by a group of farmers has left construction of 140 MLD sewage treatment plant at Dinapur stopped for more than three months. To end this crisis, UP Jal Nigam …
In a flip-flop,Congress government in Arunachal Pradesh on Sunday said it opposes the contentious land bill of BJP-led central government and backs the UPA law, barely a month after it had in a letter to Rural Development Ministry found fault with the 2013 Act and suggested that it be “revisited”. …
According to the note, the “revised stand” would be the basis for a presentation to be made by the ministry before the Joint Committee of Parliament on the land bill. Taking a major step back on amendments to the land bill, the government proposes to bring back the consent and …
