Highlights of the Finance Minister Pranab Mukherji’s budget speech (2010-2011) delivered on 26 February, 2010, http://indiabudget.nic.in/ub2010-11/bs/speecha.htm: • During 2009, growth had started decelerating and the business sentiment was weak. The economy’s capacity to sustain high growth was under serious threat from the widespread economic slowdown in the developed world. • There was uncertainty on account of the delayed and…
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• Section 105 of the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in the Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013, which provides for excluding 13 Central legislation, including Land Acquisition (Mines) Act 1885, Atomic Energy Act, 1962, Railway Act 1989, National Highways Act 1956 and Metro Railways (Construction of Works) Act, 1978, from its purview,…
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Please click here to access The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Amendment) Second Ordinance 2015, dated 30 May, 2015 Please click here to access The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Second Amendment) Bill 2015 Please click here to access The Right…
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According to the National Advisory Council 2, http://nac.nic.in/press_releases/25_may_2011.pdf Suggestions for Land Acquisition (Amendment) Bill 2009 & Resettlement and Rehabilitation Bill, 2009, http://nac.nic.in/pdf/working_group_proposal_for_larr.pdf: • The NAC has recommended that it is upto the states to decide the extent of percentage of the total land to be acquired by them. In principle, the NAC disagrees with the 70:30…
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According to A CITIZENS REPORT CARD ON SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONES prepared by civil society organization, South Asia Citizens’ web: http://www.sacw.net/IMG/pdf/CITIZENSREPORTONSEZs.pdf THE NUMBERS ISSUES OF CONCERN Landless and Agricultural labourers displaced without compensation- Destruction of Agro-based and rural economies- Creation of exploitative employment opportunities and working conditions resulting from nullification of labour protection laws – ECONOMIC…
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FOR MORE PLEASE CLICK THE LINKS LISTED BELOW Paper presented at the National Seminar on ‘Special Economic Zones: Engines of Growth and Social Development for India: Present Problems and Future Prospects’ (16 – 17 October ’08 at Hyderabad) organised by the Department of Sociology, Osmania University.http://www.sacw.net/article574.html SEZ Act-2005http://www.cnisbss.org/Newsline/PDF/SEZ/SEZ%20Act,%202005.pdf Fact Sheet on Special Economic Zones by…
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Opposition to Big Dams: Lessons for Policy * Even before Independence, there were instances of anti-dam struggles such as the one led by Senapati Bapat in opposition to the Mulshi hydroelectric project in the Western Ghats. * The first large river valley project in India, Hirakud, resulted in widespread protests in 1946 after…
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The paper by Jaideep Hardikar, published in ‘Infochange’ titled The destruction of ‘development’, http://infochangeindia.org/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=6161, does not go into depths and details, but it gives a bird’s views of the problem. Main Points: * Since independence at least 50 million people in India have been displaced by dams, mines, thermal power plants, corridor projects, field firing ranges,…
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magining a Post-Development Era? Critical thought, Development and Social Movements by Arturo Escobar is a paper, which gives a fair idea of debates on developments till 1960s and afterwards. This is an important reading for a deeper understanding of evolution of concepts of developments in last few decades. As there is a cause and effect…
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