LAND ACQUISITION IN INDIA: HISTORY AND PRESENT SCENARIO
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Land Acquisition in India refers to the process of land acquisition by the central or state government of India for various infrastructure and economic growth initiatives. Several controversies have arisen with claims that land owners have not been adequately compensated. Land Acquisition has become a most vexing problem for policy makers in India. Given the growing controversies, chaos and confusion over the land acquisition during the past few years, the then Congress government was forced to re-examine the existing land acquisition mechanism as given under the Land Acquisition Act 1894. The Land Acquisition Act of 1894 allowed the government to acquire the private land for public purposes, which could be used for large developmental projects like building roads, industries, mining, Public Private Partnership (PPP) projects, etc. but the Congress government in 2013 passed the Right To Fare Compensation and Transparency in Land acquisition, Rehabilitation and Re-settlement Act (RFCTLARR) to repeal the 19th century Act. The purpose behind introducing this act was to acquire land for strictly public welfare projects and to compensate the owners adequately. The Act again came into limelight when BJP lead NDA government introduced a bill to replace the ordinance promulgated in December 2014 which brought certain changes in the RFTCLARR Amendment Act passed by UPA government in 2013.
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