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The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has called for streamlining land acquisition to promote job creation in industry.
The upcoming monsoon session of Parliament is likely to take up the Land Acquisition and Rehabilitation & Resettlement (LARR) Bill, 2011.
Hailing LARR Bill 2011, for giving a prominent role to the Government, Chandrajit Banerjee, Director-General, CII, said: “Agglomerating land from numerous owners is not a task which the corporate sector can do effectively, especially in the absence of proper land records and with small, scattered land-holdings. Therefore, Government intervention becomes necessary in assisting such land acquisition.”
The Confederation has, however, expressed some concerns about certain provisions in the LARR Bill 2011, making recommendations to bring down solatium amount, removing vagueness from the term “affected families” for determining rehabilitation packages and removing restrictions on acquisition of irrigated multi cropped land in case of mineral extraction projects, among others.
The Bill stipulates return of the acquired land if not utilised for a period of 10 years. The Confederation has recommended that Industry must submit a “land use plan” and the provision of return of un-utilised land should be aligned to it, for industries which grow over a period of more than 10 years.
The industry body said the provision of consent of 80 per cent of the affected families being made mandatory only on land acquisition for private sector and not public sector appears discriminatory in nature.
“CII feels that there should be no distinction between private and public sector and if, at all the provision of “consent” is to be accommodated, it should be reduced to 60 per cent of project-affected families, uniformly and equally applicable to all cases, irrespective of its end use,” it said in a release.
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