The Delhi High Court has criticized the government for undue delay in providing alternate plots to citizens whose land was acquired for planned development of the Capital and said that it is the duty of the government to arrange for plots at moderate prices.

Authorities of the horticulture and forest departments dealing with survey and compensation payment for the evacuees of the three-decade-old Somasila project have reportedly siphoned off compensation funds, meant for those who lost their trees along with their lands. Farmers said officials had created false records, mentioning the presence of hundreds of trees and thereby sharing the compensation amount.

The Tatas have shut down their offices in Tirunelveli and Sattankulam earlier this year and stopped any attempt to buy land, say company officials. The Rs 2,500-crore Tata Steel titanium dioxide project has been stalled with the Tatas giving up trying to buy land for the project in Tamil Nadu. According to company officials, the Tatas have shut down their offices in Tirunelveli and Sattankulam earlier this year and stopped all attempts to buy land. In the last one year, against an estimated 9,829 acres needed for the project the company has been able to get 25 acres.

Angered by government support for the POSCO steel plant, hundreds of protestors stormed police barricades in Orissa's Dhinkia. An eye-witness account by MANSHI ASHER APRIL 1, 2008. We are at Patna, a small village in Dhinkia panchayat of Ersama block in the East Coast of Orissa. Now referred to as

Professor Amartya Sen. in an article The Industrial strategy wrote recently that it is hard to do effective and secure income-raising without substantial industrial expansion. "This works not just through direct income generation but also through its indirect consequences in energising an economy and generating new skills'. Agriculture is primary requirement, but not the power house of skilled employment.

The Supreme Court has issued notice to the West Bengal government on an appeal challenging the alleged acquisition of fertile agricultural land for Tata Motors' Nano car project at Singur and for Salem group at Haldia. A Bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justice R V Raveendran, while issuing notices to the state and the Centre, allowed an application by Tata seeking to be a party in the appeal so that it could place its views before the court.

Special economic zones came in for criticism in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday with CPI MP D Raja saying it was a kind of "land grab' which had created new and "modern zamindars' and it had debased the life of farmers, tribals and agricultural workers who are being deprived of their land.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has blown the election war bugle on the issue of rising prices with Leader of the Opposition L.K. Advani saying that the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government should control the prices or quit.

There is discouraging news for the 1.76 lakh applicants of the countermanded draw of plots of July 2, 2004, who thought they still had a chance of competing in a fresh draw. The New Okhla Industrial Development Authority (NOIDA) board has already passed a resolution that about 60% of the 1,250 plots should be auctioned. The market rates of these

The Betul, Naqueri & Canaguinim Citizen Action Committee has threatened to intensify its ongoing agitation if the government fails to immediately scrap the Food Park and Auxiliary services for the Foo