GANDHINAGAR: Ahmed Patel, a Congress chief who's a Rajya Sabha member from Gujarat, despatched a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday elevating questions concerning the land acquisition process for the bullet train undertaking. Patel has alleged that compensation norms enshrined in the land acquisition Act of 2013 — which used to be cleared by the Congress-led UPA regime — are being violated.
“I want to draw your consideration to the land acquisition process by the National High Speed Rail Corporation (NHSRC) for the upcoming Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train undertaking,” Patel says in his letter to Modi. “I'm given to take into account that the NHSRC, at the side of district officials, are in the process of acquiring agricultural land from several farmers throughout more than a few districts in Southern Gujarat.” Patel writes that farmers’ representatives have complained that the principles and procedures stipulated by the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013, are not being adhered to.
“First, the public consultation process as mandated underneath the Act should be carried out with sufficient notice and adequate publicity,” Patel writes. “However, farmer groups have raised objections that such conferences are being performed at a day’s notice without appropriate publicity. This defeats the very goal of the consultation process, the objective of which is to educate the farmers concerning the have an effect on of the undertaking and their rights available underneath the Act.”
Patel further writes: “Second, this can be very unfortunate that the Gujarat executive is engaging in the entire exercise underneath a diluted version of the 2013 Land Act, which in effect runs opposite to the regulation handed by Parliament.” Patel is going on to note: “Under the Gujarat executive’s laws, the will for obligatory consent of farmers and social have an effect on evaluate had been completed away with. The essence of the farmer’s proper to his or her land underneath the 2013 law rests on the two pillars of consent and have an effect on evaluate.” He says that by removing these processes, “the entire land acquisition process may descend to mere tokenism.”
“I want to draw your consideration to the land acquisition process by the National High Speed Rail Corporation (NHSRC) for the upcoming Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train undertaking,” Patel says in his letter to Modi. “I'm given to take into account that the NHSRC, at the side of district officials, are in the process of acquiring agricultural land from several farmers throughout more than a few districts in Southern Gujarat.” Patel writes that farmers’ representatives have complained that the principles and procedures stipulated by the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013, are not being adhered to.
“First, the public consultation process as mandated underneath the Act should be carried out with sufficient notice and adequate publicity,” Patel writes. “However, farmer groups have raised objections that such conferences are being performed at a day’s notice without appropriate publicity. This defeats the very goal of the consultation process, the objective of which is to educate the farmers concerning the have an effect on of the undertaking and their rights available underneath the Act.”
Patel further writes: “Second, this can be very unfortunate that the Gujarat executive is engaging in the entire exercise underneath a diluted version of the 2013 Land Act, which in effect runs opposite to the regulation handed by Parliament.” Patel is going on to note: “Under the Gujarat executive’s laws, the will for obligatory consent of farmers and social have an effect on evaluate had been completed away with. The essence of the farmer’s proper to his or her land underneath the 2013 law rests on the two pillars of consent and have an effect on evaluate.” He says that by removing these processes, “the entire land acquisition process may descend to mere tokenism.”
Ahmed Patel writes to PM questioning land acquisition
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