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 …
Is there a law or there are only guidelines? Well, there are both. The Land Acquisition Act, 1894 states that government has the right to acquire land in public interest. The Act is silent on the issue of rehabilitation of people displaced when their land is acquired. And displacement can …
Unlike most of West Bengal, Hooghly district, where the Singur block is located, has never been a stronghold of the Left parties. Even before the Singur crisis, the ruling Communists had been kicked out of several panchayats in the Singur block. It got worse for the Left Front last November …
The Delhi cabinet has decided to grant a special rehabilitation package, a one-time gesture to farmers of Delhi whose lands are being acquired for various government projects. The current package is more liberal in tune with the times and respect for farmers whose lands are under the process of acquisition. …
Makarand Gadgil / Pen (maharashtra) September 20, 2008, 0:29 IST Two days before the Maharashtra government is to hold a referendum in 22 villages of Raigad district to know the farmers
Shimla: "The Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in the present scenario would reverse what was achieved over decades through implementation of land reforms to re-distribute over two million hectare of land to the landless." A national conference on economic and social perspectives of SEZs at Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS), …
Company must use land immediately: Minister 1,000 acres needed in a contiguous parcel, says Ravi Kant Dharwad: There is some confusion about whether the Karnataka government has offered a fresh allocation of 1,000 acres for locating its Nano small car project in Dharwad. This is significant because Tata Motors already …
Marcus Dam Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee enters the Raj Bhavan in Kolkata on Friday to meet West Bengal Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi to discuss the Singur issue. There was optimism after the talks as Ms. Banerjee spoke of her anxiety for a solution. KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, who …
A. Srivathsan Chennai: Chennai Metro Rail Ltd has commenced consultation with property owners to purchase land for constructing stations and laying the metro line. There are 36 stations along the two metro corridors and 18 of them are located entirely on government properties. The remaining 18 stations are located partly …
Compensation for acquired land hiked substantially Formula arrived at in consultation with the farmers NEW DELHI: In a one-time gesture, the Delhi Cabinet on Friday announced a special rehabilitation package for farmers in the city whose land is under acquisition for various government projects. The decision was taken at a …
DH News Service, Bangalore: The High Court has ordered maintenance of status quo in the land acquisition from a petitioner for the Metro Rail project at Jayanagar South End Circle. Hearing a petition by M J Sumanth and four others, Justice Abdul Nazeer has ordered an emergent notice to the …
Eluru, Sept. 19: The revenue minister, Mr Dharmana Prasada Rao, made it clear that the government would no longer acquire lands from farmers for setting industrial units under the private sector. He said that instead industrialists themselves had to acquire the land from farmers after acceding to their demands. The …
Bs Reporters / Bangalore/new Delhi September 19, 2008, 0:19 IST Tata Motors has held preliminary talks with the Karnataka government for a possible relocation of its main Nano plant from Singur in West Bengal, where work has been suspended since early this month on account of a protest led by …
Marcus Dam Mamata intransigent despite government offering package for sustained economic rehabilitation of farmers Kolkata: With Karnataka offering Tata Motors required land and incentives if the company relocates its Nano car project from Singur, pressure mounts on the West Bengal government to find a way out of the gridlock on …
SHIMLA: Amid a series of brainstorming sessions in the academic environs of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study here, a national conference on special economic zones that began here on Thursday seemed heading towards a broad understanding that the rationale of SEZs is nothing but a new form of
Ranchi, Sept. 18: Hoping to send out the right signals to investors, the state government today set in motion a plan to ensure large industries did not bypass Jharkhand in their search for the right atmosphere for setting up mega projects. At a special meeting of deputy commissioners convened by …
ANIL BUDUR LULLA Bangalore, Sept. 18: Karnataka today offered the Tatas the best possible inducement to drive the Nano project out of Singur. Chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa laid on the table for Tata Motors boss Ravi Kant not one, but two plots of land
Rajib Chatterjee KOLKATA, Sept. 18: In an interesting development, more than 150 farmers of Singur who had given their land voluntarily for the Nano project have submitted applications to the block development officer expressing their willingness to return their compensation cheques and get their land back. Mr Prasenjit Chakraborty, BDO, …
The Delhi Cabinet decided to offer compensation to farmers of six villages in Northwest Delhi, including Kanjhawala, at a new rate of Rs 75 lakh per acre, in a meeting held this evening. Land was acquired by the Delhi government in six villages a few years ago and the farmers …
JAIDEEP MISHRA THERE is a tide in the affairs of people, implied the Bard. Which, taken at the flood, leads on to all-round growth and development. Take, for instance, land acquisition for industrial purposes. It
