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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‘No reference against farmers in Madhav Gadgil report’
Mining lobby behind misinformation campaign: panel member V.S. Vijayan, a member of the Madhav Gadgil Committee on the Western Ghats and former chairman of Kerala Biodiversity Board, said here on Friday that “the mining lobby and other vested interests were spreading canards about the Madhav Gadgil Committee report, which had not made a single reference against farmers or the people living in forest areas.”
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AP's new land policy puts limit on pvt acquisitions too
The new land allotment policy prescribes various guidelines, including the extent of land for a particular project in case of allotment by the government or its agencies, and also puts similar limitations on private land acquisitions, though indirectly. A company now might not be able to acquire the extent of land it wishes to for a particular project, even through direct purchase from land owners in Andhra Pradesh, as the state government’s new policy prescribes land requirement depending on the size and nature of a project.
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ONGC will pay royalty to farmers
The district administration will soon chalk out recommendations on royalty for farm land use by the ONGC for its oil pipelines in the district. This was among the significant agreements chalked out at ‘peace talks’ held between the stakeholders, in the presence of the Revenue Divisional Officer here late on Tuesday, ringing in a closure to the long-drawn struggle by farmers seeking damages for oil spill from the ONGC pipeline at Keezhvelur. “Provision for royalty to farmers will be in line with the policy of payment of royalty to the government for pipelines laid below a certain depth, and which was denied to farmers until now,” said Kaveri Danapalan of the Cauvery Farmers Protection Association, after the meeting.
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Understanding the impacts of land-use policies on a threatened species: Is there a future for the Bornean orang-utan?
<p>The geographic distribution of Bornean orang-utans and its overlap with existing land-use categories (protected areas, logging and plantation concessions) is a necessary foundation to prioritize conservation
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Unplanned urbanisation on hills hurting ecology
The rapid urbanisation of Guwahati and the consequent boom in population and construction activities since the last couple of decades has pushed the city's fragile eco-system comprising its forested hills
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Mizoram gets Rs 370 crore for shift to permanent farming
Aizawl: The Planning Commission, which earlier lauded Mizoram’s New Land Use Policy (NLUP) to support cultivators to shift to permanent farming has sanctioned Rs 370 crore for the programme, it was announced here on Monday. The Mizoram government launched the Rs 2,873 crore NLUP in 2010 to solve food scarcity by moving away from shifting cultivation to permanent farming, a statement said.
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Chandy: land Bill row uncalled for
The row over the Kerala Land Use Bill is uncalled as the government has not yet decided on piloting amendments to the Bill, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has said. Presenting a review of the Saptadhara scheme announced in November last, Mr. Chandy told reporters here on Sunday that the recommendations of two commission reports, one submitted in 2003 and the V.R. Krishna Iyer committee recommendations submitted during the tenure of the previous LDF government, were passed on to the departments concerned for eliciting their views as a routine procedure. The reports had not come in for a scrutiny so far. Along with the land use Bill, four others were also forwarded to various departments, he said.
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Gurgaon master plan a gold mine for realtors
Since 2004, licences have been given to develop as much land in the area as in the entire state during the earlier 25-odd yrs In a three-part series, Business Standard has explored how agricultural land has been commercially tapped and exploited over the years by developers, often with ample help from the government, and its impact on the stakeholders. The series begins with the Gurgaon-Manesar region, next to Delhi. In the next two parts, we will look at Rajarhat on the fringes of Kolkata and the Mumbai-Pune and Mumbai-Nashik belt.
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Fertilizer to Fork" Approach Contributes to Climate Change
Growing, transporting, refrigerating, and wasting food accounts for somewhere between 19-29 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions in 2008, according to a new analysis by the CGIAR Research Program
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Farm department to suggest changes to land utilisation Bill
No diversion of farmland will be allowed, says Minister Minister for Agriculture K.P. Mohanan has said the department will suggest amendments to the land utilisation Bill to prevent the diversion of farmland for other purposes. Responding to queries from reporters at a press conference here on Tuesday, he said the Agriculture Department had a difference of opinion on the provisions of the Bill.