futility of the Trinamool Congress claim of ‘400 acres land of unwilling farmers to return back’ was once more exposed when the original facts about the land acquisition scenario for the Tata Nano project at Singur came in publicly by State Government.According to reports reaching here, about 82% of the land owners at the acquired land for the Tata project have already taken compensation for their...
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Revenue officials in Madhya Pradesh continued to strike work for the fifth day Thursday to protest the arrest of a land revenue official in an alleged land scam.Narendra Singh Thakur, spokesperson of the Madhya Pradesh Revenue Officers Association, said the strike was "cent-per-cent" successful as all 1,100 tehsildars and naib tehsildars across the state struck work.Police arrested naib tehsildar of...
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Just two days after superstar Amitabh Bachchan landed himself in fresh trouble over a piece of land in Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh, he has now returned the land to villagers, those who were supposed to get the land in the first place.It's the same six bighas that Bachchan was accused of wrongfully donating to Samajwadi Party leader Jaya Prada's NGO.The five-member committee set up by the district administration...
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Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee has said the railways will not forcibly acquire land for its projects.Laying the foundation stone for the Nanikul-Tarakeswar double line project here on Sunday, Banerjee said: "There is a difference between acquiring 1,000 acres of land in Singur and acquiring land for the railway projects. The railways will not acquire land forcibly. We are keeping options open. Willing...
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Hooghly (WB), Nov 16 (ANI): Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee has said the railways will not forcibly acquire land for its projects.Laying the foundation stone for the Nanikul-Tarakeswar double line project here on Sunday, Banerjee said: "There is a difference between acquiring 1,000 acres of land in Singur and acquiring land for the railway projects. The railways will not acquire land forcibly. We...
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Former Minister and Congress MLA from Sarvepalli Adala Prabhakar Reddy refuted allegations by the Telangana Rastra Samiti that he had encroached assigned lands in Ranga Reddy district.At a press conference here on Tuesday, Mr. Reddy said he purchased 25.20 acres land in Bachupally village in Qutubullapur mandal of Ranga Reddy long back.But, once it came to his notice that the said lands were assigned...
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Hundreds of farmers have gathered on the outskirts of the Indian capital, Delhi, to protest against a move to amend a land acquisition bill.Farmers say amending the 115-year-old Land Acquisition Act will make it easier for the authorities to acquire their land for projects.The issue of land acquisition is a very sensitive one with 65% of the country's population dependent on farming."The Land Acquisition...
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In a bid to ensure timely water supply for irrigation in parched areas of Banaskantha district in North Gujarat, farmers in the region have volunteered to give their lands for construction of Narmada canals.The proposed canal will irrigate over 1.7 lakh hectare land which mainly depends on rains for irrigation."Banaskantha is the only district where farmers have given possession of their lands for...
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what could be a new twistto the controversy over the land-holdings of Karnataka High Court Chief JusticePD Dinakaran, some residents of the Kaverirajapuram village in Tiruvallurdistrict, where the judge is alleged to have encroached upon government land,have moved the Madras HC staking ownership over properties in the samearea.Stating that they had valid titles for the land, thepetitioners said their...
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Mamata Banerjee has begun testing the waters for an unpalatable but unavoidable factor in governance: land acquisition.The railway minister who rode to power on an anti-land acquisition platform today conceded that she needed land, including from farmers but “willing”, to lay railway tracks.Mamata stressed on the word “willing” to draw a distinction with the “forcible” acquisition of the CPM-led government...
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