Recent experience shows protests by stronger communities to acquisitions succeed, whereas those by vulnerable communities who are more badly placed do not. Acquisition of land is often not made for bona fide purposes but initiated at the instance of industrialists, businessmen and builders who persuade governments to acquire land for them at low process from farmers and make profit by downstream selling to others. 

Note: This paper has to be read along with PILSARC working paper 127: Land acquisition and rehabilitation & resettlement bill (LARR), 2011 - General problems and specific deficiences