In order to use tenanted land for setting up of projects for community or public purpose, the Goa government has introduced the Goa Land Use (Regulation) Bill, 2024 seeking amendment to Section 3 of Goa Land Use (Regulation) Act, 1991 so as to specify in the Right to Fair Compensation …
In a landmark judgment which will change how land is acquired in Haryana, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has made it clear that no person whose residential house has been acquired for “public purpose” will be dispossessed till he/she is rehabilitated. Stating that landowners, after acquiring their land, cannot …
A proposal of Rs 3,400 crore has been sent by Madhya Pradesh under 14th Finance Commission to re-settle 109 villages situated in Tiger reserve forest areas. This will accelerate the pace of development of tigers and other wildlife as well as that of villagers in the core area. There were …
Jairam Ramesh said these were in response to decades of injustice done to masses in the name of development. The draft rules of the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act would be ready on September 30, Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh said on …
The World Bank will refurbish three old thermal power plants — one in Maharashtra and two in West Bengal — at an investment of . 1,400 crore as part of a pilot project for the National Programme on Coal Rehabilitation. In West Bengal, it will spend about . 950 crore …
For the first time in four years, agitating farmers in the Trans-Yamuna region of the district are mulling over talks with the administration over the proposed 1,980-MW Karchana power plant, which failed to kick-off. However, their conditions include application of Land Acquisition and Rehabilitation Bill (LARB), 2013, provisions to the …
Corporate Affairs Ministry to seek legal opinion on diversion from Companies Act The Chhattisgarh government has sprung a unique and potentially illegal interpretation of the new Companies Bill’s mandatory Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) provision on private sector players, by asking firms to deposit their contributions to the Chief Minister Community …
For the first time in four years, farmers in the Trans-Yamuna region of this district are mulling over a negotiation with the administration over the proposed 1980 MW Karchanna power plant, which failed to kick-off. However, their conditions revolve around the application of the provisions of the Land Acqusition and …
Protesters demand Indira Sagar Dam water level be kept below 260 metres The Jal Satyagraha or sit-in-water agitation by villagers affected by the Indira Sagar Dam entered its tenth day on Tuesday despite curfew and arrests. The agitation is currently in progress in six villages in the districts of Dewas, …
Pre-fabricated house structures will be put in place at 19 locations in Uttarakhand before October 30 to rehabilitate those displaced in the catastrophic June flash floods, Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna has said. “We have identified 19 locations in the State where pre-fabricated structures will be put in place to rehabilitate …
Out of the 5,500 persons in the list of victims of endosulfan in the state, 2,046 persons have been paid the first installment of compensation as recommended by National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), the central government has informed the Kerala high court. The central government’s submission was in the form …
While there has been an increase of about seven per cent in the forest cover in Punjab, a number of irregularities in the utilisation of funds and land management have come to the fore. The total forest cover in Punjab is 1,76,400 hectare, amounting to 3.5 per cent of its …
After spending over Rs283 crore on relocation of villages from reserves, sanctuaries and national parks in Maharashtra in the last 12 years, the state government would require a further Rs 900 crore, according to its own report, for its grand plan to free all the protected areas (PAs) from human …
‘Implementation of new Land acquisition law will end displacement of tribals’ Criticising public sector undertakings (PSUs) for the displacement of many tribals, Minister for Rural Development Jairam Ramesh on Sunday blamed their actions for the growth of Naxalism in various States and reiterated that the era of “forcible land acquisition” …
Analysing the problem-ridden process of implementing the Forest Rights Act 2006 in Odisha, this paper points out that it has focused more on providing land rights to individual claimants, neglecting community forest rights, the rights in protected areas, and other such provisions. Even so, the number of titles granted to …
Amended measure, passed in the Rajya Sabha, will go back to the Lok Sabha Braving a record number of adjournments on the issue of coal scam and the demand for Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s resignation, the government succeeded in getting the crucial Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in …
The historic Land Acquisition Bill on Wednesday moved another step closer to becoming a law with Rajya Sabha approving the legislation which seeks to provide fair and just compensation to farmers and to those who lose livelihood on account of acquisition. The new law will apply to all Special Economic …
With arrest of another 125 oustees from Bichhola village of Harda district on Tuesday, the number of arrested jal satyagrahis from Khandwa, Dewas and Harda has crossed 1,000 mark in the three days. Arrests have failed to dampen the spirit dam-hit and they continued their protest against increase in dam …
Despite the completion of a number of mega infrastructure projects within the ward such as the Eastern Freeway and the Suman Nagar flyover and near completion of the Monorail, pollution and traffic congestion woes of the residents of the M-West ward — comprising Chembur, Deonar, Tilak Nagar and Pestom Sagar …
Despite a crackdown on their jal satyagraha, the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) activists are undeterred by the arrests of villagers in the Narmada ghatti. Hundreds of displaced people in Malud village in Khandwa district have entered the water demanding proper rehabilitation including land for the loss of their fields, farms …
The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2012 will impact the real estate business. The compensation formula, proposed in the bill, will push up land price and even delay projects, developers and real estate experts said. The bill’s focus remains on compensating land …
