The central
government will move the land bill for the consideration of Parliament the
winter session after deciding the cutoff date from when the provision of the
new law will come into force, rural development minister Mr. Jairam Ramesh has
said.
Mr. Jairam Ramesh
clarified on recently that while the
proposed land acquisition, relief & rehabilitation (R & R) bill had
been modified by the GoM (group of ministers) on land headed by Agri minister
Mr. Sharad Pawar and no longer required the consent of livelihood losers for
land acquisition, they would be entitled to rehabilitation & compensation
package.
Mr. Jairam Ramesh
said, “I met Mr. Sharad Pawar and we
want the Bill to be before Parliament during the winter session which begins on
November 21., 2012 That is our cut-off date. It also needs to be cleared by the
Cabinet before that” .
All other issues
where there were inter-ministerial differences including the percentage of
project affected families whose consent is required for acquisition of land
& linkage between possession of land and implementation of R & R
package have been sorted out by the GoM, Mr. Sharad Pawar had said earlier.
Mr. Jairam Ramesh
said confirmed that the GoM had brought down the percentage of project affected
families whose consent was required for acquiring land for Public-Private -
Partnership (PPP) projects from 80 per cent to 66 per cent.
He said that while
livelihood losers or / people who worked on the land would not get a say in the
decision to sell, they would be entitled to the R & R package specified in
the this Act. The minister Mr. Jairam Ramesh also said that possession of
acquired land will be allowed once the compensation money was deposited and the
implementation of the rehabilitation process began but the entire process for
rehabilitation & resettlement of affected families need not be completed. It
has been mentioned that the process should preferably be completed within two
years of acquisition of land.
The draft Bill has
also done away with the retrospective clause to ensure that pending land
acquisition cases are not brought under the ambit of the new law & instead
decided to fix a cut-off date after which the new law would apply.
The land acquisition,
rehabilitation and resettlement Bill, 2011 was introduced in Parliament in
September last year to replace the 117 year old (Land acquisition Act.Land
Acquisition Act of 1894).
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