With Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee having indicated her opposition to the proposed law on land acquisition, her Ministry on Wednesday came out with a notification promising a comprehensive review of its land acquisition policy for rail projects. The notification said "a comprehensive review of railway's land acquisition policy will be carried out and all existing land acquisition cases will be critically examined" within one month. It said the review will be carried out to "ensure that forceful acquisition of land, including agriculture land, is completely avoided." The focus of the review will be to facilitate complete transparency while acquiring or purchasing the land from the land owner, the notification said. Banerjee had on Tuesday dismissed as false reports that the government was acquiring 2,500 acres of land for the Dedicated Freight Corridor in Uttar Pradesh and said Railways needed only 140 acres.
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