{"id":2434,"date":"2018-12-19T11:50:52","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T06:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=2434"},"modified":"2018-12-19T11:50:52","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T06:20:52","slug":"land-acquisition-law-challenged-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/land-acquisition-law-challenged-in-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Land acquisition law challenged in court"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Relevant for gs paper 2 and 3:-<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Supreme Court on Monday decided to examine a plea challenging the legality of amendments brought in by Tamil Nadu and four other States, which allow authorities to bypass the need to take farmers\u2019 consent before their land is acquired for large infrastructure projects.<\/li>\n<li>A Bench of Justices Madan B. Lokur and Deepak Gupta issued notice to the Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Jharkhand governments for amending their land acquisition laws to the extent that consent of farmers or land owners is not required before their land is acquired for projects like industrial corridors, expressways and highways.<\/li>\n<li>The petition filed by activist Medha Patkar, represented by advocate Prashant Bhushan, said the States allow land acquisition without participation of representative local bodies like gram sabha in social impact assessment studies, without expert appraisal processes, public hearings, objections, and safeguard provisions to ensure food security.<\/li>\n<li>The petition said the amendments violate the \u201ccore spirit\u201d of the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act of 2013. It mandates that 70% of the affected land owners should consent to the acquisition of land for a public private participation project. The 2013 Act replaced its colonial predecessor of 1894 and was intended to uphold the farmers\u2019 right to dignity and life.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe States have removed the consent clause of PPP, paving the way for many private projects that are running under the garb of PPP. Tax payers\u2019 money is spent while acquiring land and creating infrastructure but private players take away the maximum share at the profit-making stage,\u201d Ms. Patkar argued.<\/li>\n<li>Mr. Bhushan submitted in the court that the amendments \u2014 which \u201cemasculate\u201d the 2013 Act \u2014 brought by the States were similar to a Central Ordinance promulgated in December 2014.<\/li>\n<li>The Ordinance eventually lapsed in August 2015, following which, the \u201cstage shifted to the States.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevant for gs paper 2 and 3:- The Supreme Court on Monday decided to examine a plea challenging the legality<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-2434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-studies-ii","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2435,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2434\/revisions\/2435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}