Dimapur, August 11 (MExN): The Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee today sought the favors of all political parties for the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government’s new Bill, the National Land Acquisition and Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2011 on July 30, 2011. Feedback from the public can also be made to the Congress preferably before August 31, 2011 before it is introduced in the Parliament, the NPCC stated in a note today.
The Bill, the NPCC said, if passed will be one of the landmark legislations in the history of Indian Parliament “as it will drive the country further in its over all round advancement in conformity with other developed nations of the world.”
So far the Government has been using the Land Acquisition Act of 1894 along with other 18 similar laws for governing the land acquisition processes, the NPCC stated in a note appended by its president SI Jamir. “But these laws have become somewhat obsolete and outdated owing to rapid developments over the years.”
The Bill “is timely”, Jamir said, as the government has been facing many kinds of controversies over acquisition of land for both private and government projects. The NPCC explained the Bill – “This move received far greater impetus by the initiatives of Rahul Gandhi in his fight for farmers in Uttar Pradesh and elsewhere in the country. The Bill envisages among other rehabilitative packages, the payment of land compensation based on not less than two times the value of current market rate in urban areas and not less than six times in the rural areas and the job in the projects or compensation of Rs. 200,000 (Rupees two lacs) for the member of the land-seller and tenant.”
Calling the Bill “pro ‘Am Admi’, the NPCC urge all the political parties “irrespective of regional and national, to vote for the safe passage of this Bill in the interest of the over all round development of the country.”
The Bill, the NPCC said, if passed will be one of the landmark legislations in the history of Indian Parliament “as it will drive the country further in its over all round advancement in conformity with other developed nations of the world.”
So far the Government has been using the Land Acquisition Act of 1894 along with other 18 similar laws for governing the land acquisition processes, the NPCC stated in a note appended by its president SI Jamir. “But these laws have become somewhat obsolete and outdated owing to rapid developments over the years.”
The Bill “is timely”, Jamir said, as the government has been facing many kinds of controversies over acquisition of land for both private and government projects. The NPCC explained the Bill – “This move received far greater impetus by the initiatives of Rahul Gandhi in his fight for farmers in Uttar Pradesh and elsewhere in the country. The Bill envisages among other rehabilitative packages, the payment of land compensation based on not less than two times the value of current market rate in urban areas and not less than six times in the rural areas and the job in the projects or compensation of Rs. 200,000 (Rupees two lacs) for the member of the land-seller and tenant.”
Calling the Bill “pro ‘Am Admi’, the NPCC urge all the political parties “irrespective of regional and national, to vote for the safe passage of this Bill in the interest of the over all round development of the country.”
