The impact of Jairam Ramesh moving into the Rural Development Ministry was evident on the first day itself

New Delhi Doing a volte face on his predecessor's stand, the new rural development minister, Jairam Ramesh, has accepted several crucial recommendations of the Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council (NAC) on how to compensate people who lose their land for industrial projects.

"We have accepted NAC's recommendations.

Just a day after taking charge of the rural development ministry, Mr Jairam Ramesh ordered a reversal of his predecessor Vilasrao Deshmukh

Takes decision after a meeting with NAC and Rural Ministry officials
The new Union Minister for Rural Development, Jairam Ramesh, on Wednesday set aside the two-bill approach of his predecessor and decided to frame a single integrated Bill on land acquisition, rehabilitation and resettlement.

After reviewing various programmes of the Ministry, Mr.

Disappointed he probably was but he did not make it evident.

A loss for environment is a gain for rural development. That's how an environmental activist responded on hearing news of shifting of Mr Jairam Ramesh from the Ministry of Environment to the Ministry of Rural Development.

Hated by corporates and liked by quite a few environmental activists, Mr Jairam Ramesh's absence at the Ministry of Environment would surely be felt.

Khursheed gets Law, Railways for Dinesh Trivedi; Last reshuffle before the polls, says Manmohan

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh made two key changes in his Union Council of Ministers on Tuesday: Jairam Ramesh, whose high-profile tenure as Environment and Forests Minister led to the enforcement of long-neglected environmental norms for major industrial projects, was moved to Rural Development, his

Former minister for environment and forests Jairam Ramesh is being blamed for the slide in India

The draft Land Acquisition (Amendment) Bill being vetted by the Union law ministry maintains the 70:30 formula

A major blow was delivered to the National Advisory Council