The Rajya Sabha was adjourned as the BSP raised slogans demanding a legislation on land acquisition bill acceptable to farmers. ...
12:24 PM, Aug 01, 2011
New Delhi: Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh is in Kolkata getting Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress on board on the draft land acquisition bill. Jairam reached Kolkata 24 hours after the draft land acquisition bill was made public. Getting Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool - the Congress' key ally - on board on the bill seems to be a top priority. But a day after she called the draft bill positive, Mamata has...
09:00 AM, Aug 01, 2011
Kolkata: The latest draft of the land acquisition bill will be modified as there was need for more clarity on some issues, union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh said in Kolkata on Sunday. "This bill is better. But there are specific points we need to clarify," Ramesh said after his parleys with Debabrata Bandopadhyay, a former bureaucrat considered West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee's adviser on...
07:52 AM, Aug 01, 2011
Ankur Kohli turns citizen journalist to fight against greater Noida land acquisition. ...
08:33 PM, Jul 30, 2011
On this episode of Citizen Journalist, citizens fight over Noida land acquisition. ...
08:17 PM, Jul 30, 2011
Noida: Farmers in Noida on Saturday agreed to suspend their agitation against land acquisition for three months after claiming that authorities have accepted their demands, including giving them developed plot. After talks with Noida authorities, the farmers, on their part, assured that building development activities would not be stopped, said Noida Chairman and CEO Balwinder Kumar. Emerging from a 2-hour meeting with the Noida Chairman and UP Minister Jaiveer Singh...
08:02 PM, Jul 30, 2011
The government has put the draft Land Acquisition and Resettlement and Rehabilitation (LARR) Bill, 2011 in the public domain as part of the pre-legislative consultative process. Here is the full text of the draft LARR Bill, 2011: ...
09:34 AM, Jul 30, 2011
New Delhi: Farmers from 50 villages in Noida have called a mahapanchayat on Saturday to decide their next course of action on the land acquisition battle. A fortnight in office and Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh is ready with the much-awaited Land Acquisition, Resettlement and Rehabilitation Bill. But will the bill be a slightly modified version of the archaic colonial Land Acquisition Act of 1894 or will it be a...
08:17 AM, Jul 30, 2011
New Delhi: The Land Acquisition Pre-settlement and Rehabilitation Bill 2011 suggests that under no circumstances should multi-cropped, irrigated land be acquired. The government put the Land Acquisition Pre-settlement and Rehabilitation Bill 2011 in public domain on Friday. The draft bill is now available on the Press Information Bureau website. The draft bill also says that the government can acquire land only for public purpose and that the land acquired for...
04:27 PM, Jul 29, 2011
New Delhi: The Government has finalised the new Land Acquisition Bill and will place it for consultation for one month. According to the new bill rural and urban land acquisition norms will be different, said Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh. In rural areas the compensation will be six times the registered sale price and it will be twice more for people in urban areas whose land is acquired. The consent...
12:04 PM, Jul 27, 2011
Sagarika Ghose asks a panel of experts if, land acquisition is losing legitimacy in the eyes of people. ...
11:41 PM, Jul 26, 2011
New Delhi: The Allahabad High Court on Tuesday decided to adjourn the hearing in the Noida Extension land acquisition case till August 17. It was supposed to deliver a verdict on Tuesday on the acquisition of 2,500 hectares of land in seven villages in Noida Extension. Earlier the High Court had referred hearing on Devla village in the Noida extension case to the Chief Justice of India SH Kapadia. A...
05:10 PM, Jul 26, 2011
New Delhi: Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday said that the new Land Acquisition Bill will be ready by the end of this week and will be placed for consultation for a month. It is being reported that rural and urban land acquisition norms will be different in the newly drafted Bill. "We are treating land acuqusition in urban areas differently from rural areas. In urban areas the compensation ...
04:31 PM, Jul 26, 2011
New Delhi: Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday said that the new Land Acquisition Bill will be ready by the end of this week and will be placed for consultation for a month. It is being reported that rural and urban land acquisition norms will be different in the newly drafted Bill. "We are treating land acuqusition in urban areas differently from rural areas. In urban areas the compensation...
04:31 PM, Jul 26, 2011
New Delhi: The Allahabad High Court will on Tuesday deliver a verdict on acquisition of 2,500 hectares of land in seven villages in Noida Extension. Farmers have accused the government of misusing certain clauses in the Land Acquisition Act to handover their plots to real estate developers for profits. A total of 250 petitions were filed before the court in the past two weeks by farmers challenging the state's decision...
10:03 AM, Jul 26, 2011
Tonight at 10, Sagarika Ghose asks a panel of experts whether land acquisition is losing legitimacy in the eyes of people.
09:52 AM, Jul 26, 2011
New Delhi: Farmers from 54 villages re-assembled in Greater Noida on Monday for a mahapanchayat and are also expected to meet authorities. They have been demanding developed land equal to five per cent of the area of their acquired land and have threatened to halt ongoing construction work in various sectors if not given their due. Earlier on Sunday, the mahapanchayat of Noida farmers set July 31 as their deadline...
11:44 AM, Jul 25, 2011
New Delhi: Amid a raging controversy over land acquisition norms, Government has firmed up the draft of a new bill which makes consent of 80 per cent of land owners mandatory before purchase of land. The new draft Acquisition Bill, which is expected to be unveiled in the next few days, includes recommendations of Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council (NAC) and goes even a step further. "In many ways it...
06:13 PM, Jul 24, 2011
New Delhi: Farmers from 54 villages in Uttar Pradesh descended on Greater Noida on Sunday for a mahapanchayat. The farmers organised a yagna to make sure that the court order that will come on July 26 comes in their favour. The farmers demanded developed land equal to five per cent of the area of their acquired abadi lands, as per the terms of land acquisition. They have threatened to halt...
11:01 AM, Jul 24, 2011
New Delhi: CNN-IBN has accessed the draft land acquisition bill. According to the draft, consent of 80 per cent of the project affected people is mandatory. The draft bill also has a provision for the land owners to get six times the registered price. If land prices go up, 20 per cent of the increased value should go back to land owners for 10 years. Rs 2000 per month will...
05:57 PM, Jul 23, 2011
