our recommendations
NCAS
Dear Friends,
I attach our recommendations to the government on the draft LA & R&R
Bill, and some press coverage of the National Consultation which many of you so
kindly supported and participated in. In addition NCAS Chhatisgarh and Odisha
also co-organised regional consultations.
These recommendations were sent to the email address indicated by the Ministry
of Rural development within the stipulated time. We waited to receive an
acknowledgement that did not come. Instead all of us received a rude shock at
the retrogressive nature of the bill approved by the cabinet yesterday.
Instead of moving forward, many of the provisions in the draft bill that could
have taken us towards a non-colonial dispensation have been rolled back. The
unkindest cut is the decision not to give R&R to those who do not own land
but are affected by the acquisition, as one of the important ideas that came
out of the consultation was to seek attraction of R&R provisions not on the
basis of land acquired but on the basis of population affected.
And of course, the moot point remains as to how can state collude in coercive
transfer of assets especially when it is not ready to demonstrate public good
as against private profit as the primary objective of acquisition? We
think that that this would be a preposterous position for a government
that is seeking wider legitimacy and "growth with a human face".
We seek your indulgence in making these points even more forcefully.
My best regards as ever,
Sehjo Singh
Executive Director
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National Centre for Advocacy
Studies (NCAS)
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Pune, 411 021, Maharashtra, India
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