The Bikaner Development Authority Bill, 2025
<p>The Bikaner Development Authority Bill, 2025, passed by the Rajasthan Assembly, aims to establish a Bikaner Development Authority to regulate development activities in the Bikaner district. The bill
Land Use
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Large-scale conversion of agri land for non-agricultural purposes worrisome
GUWAHATI: At a time when the Assam government is giving importance to preserve agricultural land and increase agriculture productivity, large-scale conversion of agricultural land for non-agricultural purposes in the State has become a matter of serious concern. Large-scale conversion of agricultural land for non-agricultural purposes in the State is being done without assessing the impact of such a move on the environment, especially water bodies, agriculture, rural employment, etc.
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Implement Forest Regulations Act fully”
To ensure livelihood of tribals, says member : The Tamil Nadu government should implement Forest Regulations Act fully to ensure livelihood of tribals, said P.V. Rajagopal, Member, National Land Reforms
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“DDA planning housing project on marshland”
NGO urges L-G to strop misuse of green areas To meet the increasing demand for housing in the Capital, the Delhi Development Authority has decided to change land use of a marshland in Dheerpur and announced a housing project for the Delhi Police on the site. Incidentally, the same marshland had been designated as a green area in 2010, after the environment department declined to allow a housing project at the site on the grounds that the designated area is fit for water harvesting.
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Land acquisition Bill deferred
With members pleading for more time to discuss the land acquisition Bill, which has drawn 155 amendments, the contentious Bill will now be tabled in the next session of Parliament. The Bill, which Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath said the Budget session would consider on a priority basis, will make it easy for the government to acquire land for infrastructure projects and manufacturing zones.
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Govt can return acquired land if unused for 5 yrs
The new Land Bill — cleared by the Union Cabinet last week — gives the government an ‘option’ to return the acquired land to its original owners if it remains unutilised for 60 months. Land owners can then transfer such land acquired by the government for its own use or PPP projects involving public purpose to any private entity/individuals. At its earlier deliberations, the rural development ministry, the nodal body for the land Bill, had rejected the suggestions of a Parliamentary panel for returning the unutilised land to original owners.
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Govt okays new industrial policy
SHILLONG: Replacing the 15-year-old state industrial policy, the State Cabinet on Saturday approved the new Meghalaya Industrial and Investment Promotion Policy, 2012 aimed at preventing land alienation and to protect the interest of local entrepreneurs. Briefing reporters after the Cabinet meeting, Chief Minister Dr Mukul Sangma said the new policy, which replaced the industrial policy of 1997, would also help to empower the local entrepreneurs besides checking rampant purchase of land by industries.
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NGO slams Industrial Policy
SHILLONG: The Civil Society Women’s Organisation (CSWO) has slammed the new Industrial Policy of State Government which paves way for leasing out land to mining companies and the likes saying that it was in gross violation of the Land Transfer Act. “The Government is clearly trying to sell off our lands and allowing industrialists to destroy our lands and exploit us and also make money from all the subsidies and thereby destroying the very existence of the Land Transfer Act,” CSWO president Agnes Kharshiing said in a statement on Sunday.
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ICAR highlights focus on agricultural development
SHILLONG: Minister of State for Agriculture and Food Processing Industries, Dr. Charan Das Mahant, visited ICAR Research Complex for NEH region, Umiam for a two day visit here on Saturday. During the visit, the MoS inaugurated the Phenomics facility at Plant Breeding division of ICAR-RC-NEH at Umiam. While highlighting the organic strength of the region, he said, “The north eastern region has the capacity to be the next organic producer in the country, if agricultural development is spread through adoption of innovative research being done at ICAR and other State Agricultural Universities in the region”.
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Adopt proper procedure on Khazan Land Bill: PCF
PANJIM: While maintaining that the Goa Khazan Land Development Board Bill, 2012, has been drafted to benefit land sharks for real estate, Pilerne Citizens Forum (PCF) has threatened to come on streets if government goes ahead with the proposed bill without taking local bodies into confidence. The Forum has also warned Manohar Parrikar-led government not to play with the emotions of the people, recalling that these are the same Goans who brought political change by giving a drubbing to erstwhile Congress government’s corrupt regime.
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CAG raps former Karnataka CMs over land denotification
The Comptroller and Auditor General has rapped the B S Yedyyurappa and H D Kumaraswamy governments for “rampant” illegal denotification of land benefiting builders and companies during the 2007-11 period. “During 2007-11, the government denotified 123 acres and 15.5 guntas (one gunta is about 1,086 sq ft) after taking possession and another 89 acres and 23.5 guntas of land after notifying the fact of taking possession,” the CAG report said.