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These rules may be called the Rajasthan Land Revenue (Allotment of waste land for bio-fuel plantation and bio-fuel based Industrial and processing unit)Rules, 2007. They shall extend to the whole of the State of Rajasthan. They shall come into force at once.

It won't be the same for mega projects.
Nandigram on fire: Its spark is a concern for other states too

Faced with criticism over tge low compensation to farmers for land acquired for SEZs and other industrial projects, the government is planning a legislation that will ensure direct dealing between the farmer and land acquirers.

This Act may be called the Land Acquisition (Amendment) Act, 2007.

Brinda Karat

The West Bengal Government has received consent letters from landowners for 952 of the 997 acres required. Three fourths of the 12,000 persons involved, including sharecroppers, have collected compensation amounting to Rs.131.49 crore, and others are waiting to do so.

Villagers who gave up their land for the proposed car manufacturing plant at Singur with CPI(M) Polit Bureau member Brinda Karat at a rally in Kolkata on Tuesday.

Public discourse on the Singur imbroglio by and large revolves around how many landholders have handed over, or not handed over, their land to the government for the proposed Tata motorcar factory. It is as if the number of landowners is the sole indicator of the extent of

Cheap land driving industry in terai

The relatively younger states in India are making a big push for industrialisation. In the process, they are eating into fertile agricultural land, circumventing environmental concerns and dispossessing people. bidisha kumar t

This can happen only in India. Introspection is always with retrospective effect. On June 23, 2005, the Special Economic Zone (SEZ) Bill was passed by Parliament into a law.

South Korean steel giant Posco today pledged to provide jobs to all displaced families whose land has been acquired by the company for its 12 MT integrated steel plant in Orissa. "Posco India will

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