Revenue Department in the dark over its contents

Revenue Minister Adoor Prakash has come out against the circulation of the Kerala Land Utilisation Bill without the knowledge of his department, sidestepping the rules of business that stipulate discussions at the departmental level. The Law Department has circulated the Bill on conversion of paddy land for industrial purposes, the provisions of which have become a major controversy because they seek to revive a 2002 Bill to regularise such conversion on payment of a fee of Rs. 10,000 an acre.