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 …
A farmer’s suicide at Jantar Mantar, a stone’s throw away from Parliament, has queered the pitch for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s land acquisition Bill. With the death of Gajendra Singh of Dausa (Rajasthan), political calculations have gone awry for the National Democratic Alliance government early in its tenure. Sensing the …
The Union government acquired land for widening of an under-construction highway, overruling farmers objections in Rohtak, Haryana. Rameher, Surender Singh and Chaju Singh of Madina Korsan village show the affected farm land along the under-construction National Highway 10, connecting Rohtak and Hisar On April 19, farmers working in their fields …
The Shiv Sena has reservations over certain clauses of the Land Acquisition Bill, which, it feels, are not in the interest of farmers. But the party is confident that the NDA government at the Centre will satisfactorily address these apprehensions. Maharashtra Minister of State for Finance Dipak Kesarkar said here …
Much is being said about the new land acquisition law and the amendments proposed by the NDA government to make it easier for industry and publicprivate partnership projects.However, a study carried out by Comptroller and Auditor General last year on land acquired by the Centre between 2006 and 2013 the …
The proposed 6,000 MW nuclear power plant at Mithivirdi in Bhavnagar faces further delay despite being accorded the crucial Coastal Regulatory Zone (CRZ) clearance. This is mainly because the land acquisition process for the plant cannot begin till the new land acquisition act is in place. Right to Fair Compensation …
The government has refused RTI requests for information on the decision-making process on amendments to Land Acquisition Bill. On January 17, Chitrangada Choudhury, a Fellow with the Open Society Institute, filed an RTI request with the Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD), seeking documents, file notings and correspondence between the MoRD …
Farmers, shopkeepers and tenants of Aut, Panarsa, Takoli, Nagwain and Jhiri villages have sought fair compensation and resettlement package according to the new land acquisition Act. The government had recently issued a notification to acquire land for fourlaning of the Nerchowk-Kullu stretch under Section 3 (a) of the National Highway …
Each week at least two people are being killed for taking a stand against environmental destruction. Some are shot by police during protests, others gunned down by hired assassins. As companies go in search of new land to exploit, increasingly people are paying the ultimate price for standing in their …
The World Bank has repeatedly violated its own policies on protecting the rights of indigenous people by funding projects that forced nearly 3.4 million slum-dwellers, farmers and villagers from their homes and jobs over the past decade, according to documents seen by the Guardian. The projects, into which the bank …
150-200 projects under construction have already been delayed by 2-3 years due to land acquisition issues Home buyers in Noida Extension, across the Delhi border, might get caught in more delay, this time over the National Green Tribunal (NGT) order asking developers to halt construction activity unless in line with …
Unseasonal rain in the last few days in Andhra Pradesh claimed six lives, besides causing extensive damage to agricultural and horticultural crops in over one lakh acres. Agriculture Minister P. Pulla Rao told reporters on Monday that two persons each were killed in Kadapa, Kurnool and Anantapur districts and the …
Senior counsel Indira Jaising said that the Rajya Sabha was prorogued to justify the ordinance, which was a blatant abuse of the President's powers The Supreme Court on Monday issued a notice to the central government on a petition moved by a farmers’ forum, challenging repromulgation on April 3 of …
Kanhar Protests. Photo courtesy of vindhyabachao.org Police fired on anti land acquisition protesters at Kanhar dam early morning today when nation celebrates 124th birth anniversary of Bhimrao Ambedkar popularly known as popularly known as Babasaheb. The tribal leader Akku Kharwar from Sundari village and around 8 people have been grivieously …
NDA Ordinance Has A Rider; But HC Cancels Acquisition Of 100 Acres In Capital As the NDA government's land bill remains stuck in a logjam with the opposition stonewalling it in Rajya Sabha, it's the UPA 's 2013 law that has for now benefitted a section of landowners in Delhi. …
It is not corruption alone, but official hurdles too hamper irrigation projects in the state. The union ministry of environment and forest (MoEF) had wanted the entire reservoir, that will be created out of Jigaon dam in Buldhana, be declared as a reserve forest! After stiff opposition by the Vidarbha …
These rules may be called the Himachal Pradesh Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Social Impact Assessment and Consent) Rules, 2015.
A group of persons from families displaced due to the shelved mega steel project of Tata Steel in Ganjam district of Odisha demonstrated in front of the project office of the company at Mandiapalli on the outskirts of Berhampur on Tuesday. The agitators, who were mostly from Sindhigaon village, locked …
Seeking to scotch "lies" about the controversial land acquisition bill, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday declared that it rather synergized India's growth imperative with the need to protect the environment as tribal and forest land has been kept out of its purview. Inaugurating state environment and forest ministers' conference …
ISLAMABAD: Residents of Malout village held a protest against planned acquisition of land in their village and demanded that they not be displaced from their ancestral land. The protesters gathered at Chak Shahzad, holding banners and placards inscribed with slogans against the government. They demanded Chief Justice of Pakistan to …
Hints at not allowing further amendments to the Bill | Says the Opposition is anti-growth Hardening its stance, the Centre today indicated that it would not allow further amendments to the controversial Land Bill and asserted that it is ready to face the “consequences” even as it acknowledged that Rajya …
