Land Acquisition Act controversy

Land acquisition in India is currently governed by The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013, which came into force from 1 January 2014. This act had re appealed the earlier existing Land Acquisition Act, 1894. The preamble of the act describes the new act in very clear words which is worth reproduction here:An Act to ensure , in consultation with institutions of local self-government and Gram Sabhas established under the Constitution, a…Read more