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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Changes introduced in Land Bill draft
At the instance of Congress president and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, changes have been introduced in the proposed draft Land Acquisition Bill. According to the revised draft, the consent of 80 per cent of the landowners has been made obligatory if it procured for private purposes. Earlier, the proposal was to secure the consent of just 67 per cent of the landowners. But, if the land is acquired for a public cause, the no consent was required. Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar disclosed this to reporters after his meeting with Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh over the issue. He said, “A detailed discussion was made in the last GoM. Some of them suggested changes and these were discussed and finalised on Monday.”
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Turf war over land Bill
Revenue Department in the dark over its contents Revenue Minister Adoor Prakash has come out against the circulation of the Kerala Land Utilisation Bill without the knowledge of his department, sidestepping the rules of business that stipulate discussions at the departmental level. The Law Department has circulated the Bill on conversion of paddy land for industrial purposes, the provisions of which have become a major controversy because they seek to revive a 2002 Bill to regularise such conversion on payment of a fee of Rs. 10,000 an acre.
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White paper offers solution to urbanization problems
UNESCO and CHIC Group released the White Paper on the UNESCO-CHIC Group (China) Biosphere Integrated Rural Urbanization Program on Oct 21 in Shanghai. The white paper aims to provide solutions for integrated
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Value of forest ecosystem services: a quantitative estimation from the Kangchenjunga landscape in eastern Nepal
The ecosystem services derived from conservation areas have a high value for human well being, but they do not receive due consideration in public policy in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region. As a result,
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Addressing long-term challenges to food security and rural livelihoods in South Asia
Notwithstanding its impressive economic growth, food insecurity in South Asia continues to be a stark reality for a large number of households. Despite several successful policy interventions by Governments,
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Planning ahead for Delhi
Leading lights of the ongoing Delhi Master Plan-2021 review led by Urban Development Minister Kamal Nath, Delhi Lieutenant-Governor Tejendra Khanna and Delhi Urban Arts Commission chairman Raj Rewal discussed and debated the implications and suggestions to be incorporated in the finalised plan at a workshop here on Monday. Other prominent speakers at the workshop include Union Urban Development Secretary Sudhir Krishna, DDA Vice-Chairman S. K. Srivastava and DDA Commissioner (Planning) S. P. Bansal.
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DDA Master Plan experts call for low-rise high-density development, mixed-land use
“Acquire illegal farmhouses for social infrastructure; use sick industrial plots for residential development” The Delhi Development Authority on Monday completed a significant milestone in its ongoing review of the Delhi Master Plan-2021. Four technical committees engaged in reviewing four broad areas of the Master Plan came up with presentations on the work done so far and an audience of top public servants, town planners, urban designers and architects offered their views on the broad ideas that the improved Master Plan seeks to incorporate.
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Gujarat Ecology Commission calls for debate on land acquisition law
GANDHINAGAR: Gujarat Ecology Commission (GEC) has stressed upon the need for a public debate on the issue of an appropriate act on land acquisition and resettlement. In a recent document entitled State
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Go Green campaign goes beyond borders
New Delhi: The Earth Care Awards’ fourth edition this year moves beyond borders, drawing into its fold India’s neighbours for the first time since the Times of India launched the Go Green India campaign
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Organic farming the way ahead for State: expert
Kerala should take serious steps to switch over to organic farming, Lynette Abbott, internationally-renowned soil biologist and professor with the School of Earth and Environment of the University of Western Australia, has said. She is here to meet faculty and students of the Kerala Agricultural University and the Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, and deliver a series of 12 lectures to KAU’s Academy of Climate Change Research and Education.