More confusion in land acquisition

Legislation for land acquisition is to enable acquisition of land by the government, which is essentially expropriatory by nature, even though compensation based on market value is paid. Until about 10 years ago, ‘public purpose’ was ordinarily not being questioned until misuse of enactment came to fore. The new Bill comes with some corrections to identified problems but fails on the basics, as it primarily tries to curtail the power of the government to acquire land.

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