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Union Minister for Rural Development Shri Jairam Ramesh said that the new Land Acquisition Bill is not against industrialisation and urbanisation as there is no bar on purchase of private land. He said the new Act renamed as the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2013 will come into force only in such cases where the land will be acquired by Central or State Authorities for any public purpose. Briefing the media here, Shri Ramesh said, the new Act which will be notified within three months will be applicable to SEZ ( Special Economic Zone) Projects and there will be no change in the land use except in certain cases through laid down procedures. He said, the thirteen Central Acts which are outside the purview of the new Act have to conform to the provisions of compensation and Rehabilitation and Resettlement package within one year of the coming into force of the legislation. He said, there is a balance in the new Act as it serves the the interests of all sections of society. Terming the bill as a progressive piece of legislation, the Minister said it gives priority to the interests of the farmers, landless labourers, dalits and tribals, which he also termed as national interest. He also allayed the fears that the new Act gives absolute powers to the collectors as far as land acquisition, Award, compensation and rehabilitation are concerned and stated that unlike in the old Act, the above provisions have been clearly enunciated in the new law thus curtailing the discretionary powers of the District Magistrates.

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Shri Ramesh criticised the Public Sector Undertakings for the large scale displacement of people particularly tribals in states like Chhattisgarh, Odisha and Jharkhand for executing projects mainly mining and coal without adequate compensation and R&R package, which the Minister said is the main cause of growth of naxalism. He said, the era of forcible acquisition is over and added that if the new Land Acquisition Act is implemented properly, it will put an end to inhumane displacement of tribals from forests and check the Maoist problem.

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10 years ago dr g balakrishnan

In minerva mills case (1980) hon SC had laid down an important limitation on the power of parliament, that means parliament could not play like a play boy in its views on the very tenets of the constitutional principles and thus limited the powers under Art 368 is a well known fact sirs!


10 years ago dr g balakrishnan

when justice y v chandrachud said...'let us give to parliament freedom (not license pls note) within the framework of the constitution (is clear that parliament need to balance on the poll vault of the constitution only) to ensure that the blessings of liberty (not license) will be shared by us' mean the parliament has to work with in the fetters of the constitution. sirs!


10 years ago dr g balakrishnan

And yet the parliament indeed misbehaved with the fundamental rights of people is no exaggeration at all, which every integrated judge knows!


10 years ago dr g balakrishnan

Even over ruling by kesavananda bharati case the golaknath does not mean in its 69 days hearing, by 13 judges, longest hearing in the history of supreme court, that did not ever say you could mangle the basic tenet of the constitution - the supremacy of the constitution, republican and democratic character reiterated and sovereignty of the country mean vast majority of citizens, not defacto people representatives in the guise of MPs/MLAs could over rule.. even secular character could not e assailed, though demarcation of powers between states and union have to be preserved, no state is a slave to any parliament, is an ascertained fact, also 'dignity of individual' must be secured, by the basic freedoms as contained in fundamental rights in the part III of the constitution and mandate to build a welfare state does not mean you would make the citizen a slave of the state,but even directive principles found in part IV, are also declared as the fundamental rights, and that way Part IVA art 51A ..duty of the government to duly observe its obligations to citizens further indicates that all these are not empty promises by any political party in power, but must be o preserve the unity and integrity of the nation, are indeed holistic thoughts assured in kesavananda bharathy case, sir!


10 years ago dr g balakrishnan

indeed we must agree art 368 does not give any sweeping power to parliament which is just an art 12 creature, can you ever allow the infant eat its own mother!


10 years ago dr g balakrishnan

Doctrine of prospective invalidity conceived in goaknath is really appropriate, why you want to call not applicable when that american doctrine is as much valid just for the very reason indian constitution is modelled on the lines of American constitution founders duly followed by indian constitution founding fathers sir!


10 years ago dr g balakrishnan

in the name of economic development you could not deprive local domestic agriculturists as also citizens to sacrifice their legitimate healthy food products just to earn some foreign exchange, that kind of political thought in nothing short of Slavery revisited please!


10 years ago dr g balakrishnan

Even though majority judgement in golaknath traces that parliamentary power to amend the constitution in the residuary power of legislation never to allow a thinking process that parliament could assume the so called amending powers as unfettered free play, like the other day in 2012 -14 UPA wanted to fetter SC from punishing the MPs found to be politically corrupt to be left scot free, that such ideas are some kind of license that is not the purpose of the well thought out constitution by constitution founders please!


10 years ago dr g balakrishnan

majority judgement in golaknath though severely criticized by vested interests when the critics simply wanted art 368 shd muzzle the constitutional basic tenets and thus those vested interests felt every constitution though fully deliberated by not a single party political group, but single individual parties wanted to mangle the constitution for their own political personal gains should be restricted by the very citizens only like in US people rose in favour of private property that has been won indeed, indian constitution is also modelled on the lines of american constitution where 'individual rights' have to be protected and thus the citizens zealously guarded their own rights finding political parties would play truant!


10 years ago dr g balakrishnan

when smt Indira gandhi landed in election trouble, she has to rush to the same supreme court to protect her under the same constitution of india which she tried to muzzle s it not!


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