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| Govt gears up to enact new LAA | | After Azad intervention | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, June 30: After senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad made it clear during his recent visit to Srinagar that Omar Abdullah lead Government must enact the new Land Acquisition Act (LAA) in Jammu and Kashmir, the Government according to sources is planning to bring this bill in state legislature during the upcoming session which will commence from the month of August.
According to sources the Revenue department has been asked to prepare a draft bill on this matter which would be presented in the state legislature when the session begins after a month or so.
Earlier also the National Conference has created hurdles in implementing the 73rd amendment of the Panchayati Raj Act or even extension of central RTI Act 2005 into Jammu and Kashmir in toto. The National Conference created similar hurdles in extending the new Land Act into Jammu and Kashmir as according to NC leadership it would erode article 370 and this will be their another political stunt to woo the voters. But the observers feel that NC is now under tremendous pressure from Congress leadership as well as high command to ratify this law in the upcoming session of the state legislature because if the New Land Acquisition Law is not made applicable to J&K it will be ultimately be the defeat of the Congress in J&K. Now to keep all these things into consideration NC has agreed to abide by the orders from Congress especially its senior leader Ghulam Nabi Azad
Important aspects of the bill:
Compensation up to 4 times the market value in rural areas and 2 times the market value in urban areas.
- To address historical injustice the Bill applies retrospectively to cases where no land acquisition award has been made.
- No law can be acquired in Scheduled Areas without the consent of the local panchayat / Gram Sabhas
-No one shall be dispossessed of the land until and unless all payments are made and alternative sites for the resettlement and rehabilitation have been prepared.
-Compensation to those who are dependent on the land being acquired for their livelihood.
-In cases where Public Private Partnership (PPP) projects are involved or acquisition is taking place for private companies, the Bill requires the consent of no less than 70 per cent and 80 per cent respectively (in both cases) of those whose land is sought to be acquired.
-To safeguard food security and to prevent arbitrary acquisition, the Bill directs States to impose limits on the area under agricultural cultivation that can be acquired.
-In case land remains un-utilised after acquisition, the new Bill empowers states to return the land either to the owner or to the State Land Bank.
-No income tax shall be levied and no stamp duty shall be charged on any amount that accrues to an individual as a result of the provisions of the new law.
This law has very great importance viz a viz J&K state as scores of centrally sponsored developmental projects are under construction in the state. The Government has acquired land after 2011 for such projects and in future also land would be acquired for the same and it would be sheer injustice with people of J&K if they don't get the compensation as per new Land Acquisition Act i.e 4 times in rural areas and 2 times in urban areas. So the NC will be under tremendous pressure from public also if it fails to extend the New Land Acquisition Act into J&K or enact a similar law in J&K. |
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