Compensation

It isnt going to come easy

The Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Front government
in West Bengal had handled the acquisition of land from the peasants for the Nano car project of Tata Motors at Singur in a hopelessly insensitive manner. The Trinamool Congress, the main opposition party, has ever since tried to gain all it can from this failing of the communists. The CPI(M), in its anxiety to pursue industrialisation at all costs, should have known better than to be more concerned about the incentives for private industry than about livelihoods and asset security for the local populace. (Editorial)

Publication Date:

06/09/2008

Source: Economic and Political Weekly

Vol:

43

Issue:

36

pp:

6

Tags:

Land Resources, Land Acquisition, Singur, Development, Conflicts, Compensation, Tata Motors, Political Parties, West Bengal

Land

To keep Nano back, Buddha plan: monthly pension for farmers, land-for-land deal

Subrata Nagchoudhury

Kolkata, September 4: To keep the Nano factory from moving out of the state, the West Bengal Government is ready with what it calls an

Publication Date:

05/09/2008

Source: Indian Express (New Delhi)

Tags:

Land Acquisition, Singur, Farmers, Compensation, Tata Motors

Land

State govt agrees to discuss land-for-land at peace talks

Bs Reporter / Kolkata September 05, 2008, 0:32 IST

Trinamool backs down on extent of claims.

The government of West Bengal is likely to accept the

Publication Date:

05/09/2008

Source: Business Standard (New Delhi)

Tags:

Land Acquisition, Singur, Compensation, Auto Industry, Tata Motors, West Bengal

Land

Singur peace process moves into first gear

Bs Reporter / Kolkata September 04, 2008, 1:46 IST

Governor Gandhi to hold first meeting today.

West Bengal Governor Gopal Krishna Gandhi has convened a preliminary agenda-setting meeting between combating sides on the Singur issue on September 4 and a formal meeting at 10 am on September 5 in a bid to work out a solution to the problem of reconciling farmers who refused compensation for land they lost to the Tata Motors

Publication Date:

04/09/2008

Source: Business Standard (New Delhi)

Tags:

Land Acquisition, Singur, Farmers, Compensation, Auto Industry, Tata Motors, West Bengal

Land

Let's talk via mediator, Mamata tells Left Front

TRINAMOOL MEETS WEST BENGAL GOVERNOR
Bs Reporter / Kolkata September 1, 2008, 0:27 IST

The impasse at Singur caused by the indefinite protest in front of Tata Motors Nano-manufacturing plant by the Trinamool Congress and its allies under Mamata Banerjee seemed to have moved closer to a resolution today even as Tata Motors indicated it would not send its workers and officers to the plant site on September 1.

Publication Date:

01/09/2008

Source: Business Standard (New Delhi)

Tags:

Land Acquisition, Singur, Rehabilitation, Compensation, Auto Industry, Tata Motors, West Bengal

Land

Development, displacement and resistance: The law and the policy on land acquisition

Peasants across India are opposing development projects which displaced them from their land, habitat, livelihood and environment. They are questioning the paradign of development itself which is so heavily loaded against them. The law on land acquisition is central to the understanding of this hostility to development.

Publication Date:

01/09/2008

Author(s): K. B. Saxena

Source: Social Change

Vol:

38

Issue:

3

pp:

351

Tags:

Land, Land Acquisition, Land Act 1894, Development, Displacement, Farmers, Conflicts, Rehabilitation, Compensation, India

Energy

Sustainable development or business as usual?

This study is an analysis of the social impacts and community engagement process for an IFC-supported project in Chhattisgarh, India. It also provides an assessment of the application of IFC Performance Standard 7 (Indigenous Peoples) and related IFC standards and requirements

Publication Date:

01/09/2008

Author(s): Liam Taylor, Devjit Nandi

Source: Forest Peoples Programme

Tags:

Land Acquisition, Coal, Tribals, Rehabilitation, Compensation, Thermal Power Plants, India, Chhattisgarh, Korba (D), Sustainable Development, Korba West Power

Agriculture