In an interaction with BW’s Rajeev Dubey, Professor S. Mahendra Dev argues why our inclusive growth is far from ‘inclusive’

Both UPA I and UPA II have had identical social objectives: enormously expensive subsidy-laden programmes that began with job guarantee through MGNREGA and have since expanded to free education, food security and now universal healthcare.

BHUBANESWAR: The State Government has prepared draft amendment to make provisions under the Orissa Prevention of Land Encroachment (OPLE) Act, 1972, more stringent. The draft amendment is done on the lines of laws framed by Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh governments and the proposed amendment suggests collection of hefty rent from unauthorised occupants of Government land till their eviction, Revenue and Disaster Management Minister SN Patro told the Assembly on Tuesday.

Amendment in land law to allow entrepreneurs to hold more than 24 acres; leasing policy is eased too. The West Bengal assembly has passed the Land Reforms (Amendment) Bill, 2012, to promote setting up of business establishments like factory, port and airport and also proposed to raise the upper ceiling of holding land from the existing 24 acres.

Kolkata West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has finally intervened to provide land to industry on easier conditions. The government has removed the ceiling of a maximum 24 acre that an industrial unit could buy in the state directly.

The West Bengal Land Reforms (Amendment) Bill 2012 introduced in the state legislature on Monday rectified the inconsistency, which the government itself created by adopting the policy of “no government acquisition.”

The Mamata Banerjee government will make few amendments in the West Bengal Land Reforms Act, 1955, in its bid to attract new investment in the state. The West Bengal Land Reforms (Amendment) Bill, 2012, was passed in the state Assembly by 152-46 votes after the Opposition Left Front sought a division. This bill, once it becomes an act will, clear the hurdles in setting up industrial parks, IT hubs, bio-tech parks and financial hubs among others in the state.

The Delhi Cabinet on Wednesday approved auctioning of fishing activities in 24 water bodies on gram sabha land in the Capital.

At a meeting chaired by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, it was decided that fish culture would be encouraged in the water bodies and village ponds to overcome the problem of encroachment of such water bodies situated on gram sabha land.

The Delhi Cabinet today decided to encourage fish culture in villages in order to overcome encroachment activities over the water bodies situated under gram sabha land. While talking to media after the meeting, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said that the Cabinet had decided to promote fish culture in the water bodies to overcome encroachment activities over the water bodies situated under the gram sabha land.

As dismal as their condition has been, the ponds in Delhi could soon get a new lease of life — in the form of fish culture. The Delhi Cabinet on Wednesday decided to promote fish culture in the rural waterbodies of the Capital. The government said the move is aimed at creating livelihood for people living in villages, and also overcoming the problem of encroachment on groundwater recharge structures.