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Land bill today, Fate unknown 09 March 2015
The government will meet opposition leaders before the land bill comes up for consideration and passage in Lok Sabha. The Centre is also working on further amendments to dilute some provisions of the ordinance. Parliamentary affairs minister Venkaiah Naidu, rural...
Keywords: Rajya Sabha, finance minister, rural development minister, rural development minister
Read MoreLand Bill ammendments suggested by JPC may be accepted 04 August 2015
The Union government has expressed its readiness to accept the recommendations of the parliamentary panel on the land bill. “We must consider issues on which there is a consensus,” rural development minister Birender Singh said. “Our stand on land bill...
Keywords: JPC, Birender Singh, JPC, JPC
Read MoreLand ordinance bill re-promulgated 03 April 2015
The land acquisition ordinance, which the government could not get converted into a legislation in Rajya Sabha due to stiff opposition, was on Friday re-promulgated, a day before it is to lapse. President Pranab Mukherjee has signed the ordinance as...
Keywords: Rajya Sabha, Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Pranab Mukherjee, Lok Sabha
Read MoreJoint panel set-up to elaborate on land bill 13 May 2015
The Lok Sabha has referred the land acquisition bill to a Joint Committee of Parliament after continuous resistance from the Opposition. The bill had been promulgated to an ordinance twice and failed to get the bill cleared in Parliament. The...
Keywords: Rajya Sabha, Lok Sabha, Congress, Rajya Sabha
Read MoreNitish Kumar’s Gandhigiri against Land Bill 14 March 2015
Bihar CM is back on track in showing his political acumen, particularly against Modi. After sailing a comfortable trust vote, Nitish called for a state wide protests and agitations against the Modi government’s Land Acquisition Bill. Nitish on Saturday started...
Keywords: Land Acquisition act, Anna Hazare, Nitish Kumar, Bihar Assembly elections
Read MoreLand bill to be in states court 16 July 2015
The Central government has indicated that it may be willing to let interested states to circumvent the consent clause and social impact clause in the Land acquisition bill and it may not push for an amendment of the central law."If...
Keywords: BJP, BJD, BJD, Finance Minister
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