How NITI Aayog can remove the land bill deadlock

Abstract

The government may like to revisit the strategy of wider dissemination of vital knowledge on the subject to the public at large. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, according to reports, at the NITI Aayog meeting yesterday, has observed that the critical deadlock over land acquisition is impacting development and slowing down creation of schools, irrigation projects, playgrounds, and other similar facilities in rural areas. At the outset, the government should be congratulated for taking up such sensitive issues which had been put on the back burner by the previous government and were partially responsible for stalled projects leading to slowdown of the economy.

Land is the crucial asset for a family as well as a source of revenue for the local and state governments. Land has inter-generational value which benefits the family, sometimes even the larger joint family, over centuries. The compensation for acquired land as well as proposed employment is only restricted to one person in the family which makes the issue of land acquisition very sensitive to families across the country. Uniform pricing of land as well as stipulating compensation becomes difficult in view of different levels of land fertility and utility as well as tribal/forest/mountainous belts across the widespread geographical ranges in India. Read more at: https://www.dailyo.in/politics/niti-aayog-land-bill-narendra-modi-development-concurrent-list/story/1/5035.html