LAND ACQUISITION BILL vis-a-vis LAND-LESS LABOURERS.

Visual and print media is filled with reports on the discussions, debates and protests on the issue of land acquisition in the country. On the one hand, the government, by all means, wants to pass the amended bill on land acquisition while on the other hand, the united opposition wants to stop it by all means. Everyone is asking the question as to why this amendment at all. The existing Act of 2013 is not put into test yet. Then why the hurry to bring these amendments that takes away most of the protection given to the farmers and other land owners of the country. Though it is proclaimed very vehemently that the need of land acquisition is for building houses, schools and hospitals, etc. for the poor, but in a very subtle way the amendment makes it easier for any private entities that includes any private entity including a proprietorship, partnership, company, corporation, non-profit organisation or any other entity under any other law to acquire land. Ordinary citizens of the country tend to believe in the rhetoric of the politicians regarding the sweet promises for their welfare. Two major protective mechanisms of the farmers in the 2013 Act, the consent clause and the Social Impact Assessment Clause, is done away with in the present Bill. It only shows that the Government listens to the corporates and not to the farmers. The present government (NDA) talks about development. The question is whose development? Does the government feel that the farmers of this country are not contributing to the development of this country at all? One of the questions raised in the Lok Sabha during the debates was whether the government would be able and willing to acquire the golf courses in the country. The answer will surely be in the negative. But for the sake of the so called 'development' it would acquire the lands of the poor farmers, even if it is a very fertile land, without their consent and without looking at the impact such acquisition will make in the lives of the people there.
The country has a law that guarantees the food security of the people. Where do we get the food when the land is taken for the development? The migrant labourers in the cities are losing jobs as many of the small undertakings that employed them are clsoing down due to the ill effects of globalisation. They are forced to return to the villages. What work will they do except returning to the jobs connected with agriculture. Thus we see that more and more people are depending on agriculture and land. Therefore it is the bounden duty of the government to find ways and means to protect agriculture and the land in which most of the rural people below poverty line are depending on. It is the time to open the eyes and recognise the work done by these landless labourers for the development of our country whose only livelihood is land. It is time to recognise the hard work of the people behind the curtains for the welfare and development of the country and protect the interests of the corporates.
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Challapalli Srinivas Chakravarthy
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