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Land use and Land Acquisition laws in India

dc.contributor.authorAnwarul Hoda
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-10T17:20:41Z
dc.date.available2018-09-10T17:20:41Z
dc.date.issued2018-07-30
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11540/8592
dc.description.abstractThe enactment of the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Rehabilitation Act, 2013, has made sweeping changes in the land acquisition laws of India (LARR Act, 2013). By increasing the compensation for acquired land, mandating a social impact assessment to be undertaken and requiring the prior consent of land holders in particular cases, the Act has no doubt corrected the imbalance that existed between the interests of land-owners and of the government as the custodian of public interest in the earlier land acquisition procedures. It has significantly increased transparency in the land acquisition process and given a voice to land owners in decisions on land acquisition. But the implementation of the Act, as originally enacted, could also retard the development process by slowing down the building of public infrastructure, and the processes of industrialisation and urbanisation. It could impede the provision of affordable housing for the vast majority of the population moving from rural to urban areas, which is crucial for controlling the spontaneous development of sprawls taking place across the country. The central government has tried to alleviate some of the adverse effects by introducing an amendment bill but its passage in Parliament has been stalled. Six states, however, have obtained presidential assent for carrying out amendments on the lines of the bill introduced in Parliament. This paper analyses the LARR Act, 2013, examines its impact on the development process and makes recommendations on the way forward for the central and state governments to lighten the adverse effects on infrastructure, industrialisation and urbanisation. While analysing the developments on urbanisation, the paper also makes an assessment of the possible expansion of urban settlements in the country in future and of the impact of such expansion on the area under agriculture.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherIndian Council for Research on International Economic Relations
dc.titleLand use and Land Acquisition laws in India
dc.typeWorking Papers
dc.subject.expertAsian Development Bank
dc.subject.expertDevelopment
dc.subject.expertSustainable Development
dc.subject.expertUrban Area
dc.subject.expertUrban Areas
dc.subject.expertUrban Population
dc.subject.expertUrbanization
dc.subject.expertUrban Services
dc.subject.expertUrban Projects
dc.subject.expertUrban Problems
dc.subject.expertUrban Poverty
dc.subject.expertUrban Policy
dc.subject.expertUrban Planning
dc.subject.expertUrban Infrastructure
dc.subject.expertUrban Health
dc.subject.expertUrban Government
dc.subject.expertUrban Economic Development
dc.subject.expertUrban Development Finance
dc.subject.expertUrban Development
dc.subject.expertUrban Conditions
dc.subject.expertUrban Communities
dc.subject.expertUrban Population
dc.subject.adbEconomic development
dc.subject.adbCities
dc.subject.adbSustainable growth
dc.subject.adbEconomic development
dc.subject.adbUrban Plans
dc.subject.adbUrbanism
dc.subject.adbUrban agriculture
dc.subject.adbRural Urban Migration
dc.subject.adbCities
dc.subject.naturalInvestment
dc.subject.naturalSustainable development
dc.subject.naturalLocal government
dc.subject.naturalUrban renewal
dc.subject.naturalUrban housing
dc.subject.naturalUrban sociology
dc.subject.naturalTransit systems
dc.subject.naturalRapid transit
dc.subject.naturalPublic transit
dc.subject.naturalMass transit
dc.subject.naturalWages
dc.subject.naturalLand Acquisition
dc.title.seriesWorking Paper
dc.title.volume361
dc.contributor.imprintIndian Council for Research on International Economic Relations
oar.themeDevelopment
oar.themeUrban
oar.themeLabor Migration
oar.adminregionSouth Asia Region
oar.countryIndia
oar.identifierOAR-008170
oar.authorHoda, Anwarul
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