Rural Bihar is being suffocated by the control exercised by the landed gentry who own a disproportionate share of cultivable land and yet have little interest in increasing agricultural production. Those who can and do
New Delhi: The UPA government has listed the Resettlement and Rehabilitation bill and Land Acquisition Amendment bill for introduction in the winter session of Parliament starting on Thursday, a move sure to test its will to skirt around protests from Trinamool Congress.
The government today issued a written statement saying the land allotted to an educational foundation off EM Bypass was not recorded as a fishery as claimed by the fisheries minister yesterday.
The project to develop destination tourism, circuit tourism and the Ganga Heritage cruise project in the state cannot be carried out as the state tourism department is yet to get necessary clearance from the land and land reforms department.
The Common Minimum Programme of the UPA government at the Centre articulates that, 'Landless families will be endowed with land through implementation of land ceiling and land redistribution legislation. No reversal of ceilings legislation will be permitted' (The Hindu, 2004).
NIMBLE thought can jump both sea and land, mused the Poet obviously unconcerned about the need to acquire plots for plants, factories and whole industries. That was then, in less complicated times sans a host of rigidities amidst flux and change. Fastforward to the here and now, and the report that the Centre is to table the Land Acquisition (Amendment) Bill in Parliament is notable indeed.
Kol tribals in Patha region of Chitrakut district (Uttar Pradesh) have taken a big step forward in exposing the corruption which prevents the benefits of various government schemes from reaching them.
