Land

New Delhi: Farmers of Delhi are now a worried lot, as Delhi Development Authority (DDA) and the city government are planning to acquire panchayat land for ‘planned development of Delhi’.

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Vrinda Sharma CHANDIGARH: “We have decided that we die instead of selling even an inch of our land,” said Hans Raj, leader of the farmers of Goorakhpur-Kumharia village of Haryana, after a meeting of the villagers on Sunday. The agitating farmers have been camping for over 20 days outside the mini secretariat at Fatehabad town, over 300 km from here, to protest acquisition of over 1400 acres

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District-in-Charge Minister Krishna J Palemar has said that land acquisition for II Phase of Mangalore Special Economic Zone (MSEZ) will not be allowed at any cost in Dakshina Kannada district which has large area of cultivable and fertile land in several regions. Addressing reporters after welcoming the Queen’s Baton at Gundya on Sunday, he said that already a total of 1,800 acres has been acq

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The UP government’s decision to scrap the project for a township along the Yamuna Expressway near Aligarh, and also the interchange to link the town with the expressway, has divided the farmers.

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SAMBALPUR: A recent reply from the Rengali Tehsil office to a query under RTI Act has opened a can of worms. Having failed to get a response on the rampant pollution due to growing industrialisation in the block, Sarpanch of Rengali gram panchayat Laxmi Narayan Sahu had sought information on land acquired by the 10 industries besides land leased out for mining on July 26.

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Mahuva: AICC general secretary and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi sent his envoy of the party’s youth leaders to attend a farmers’ meet at Doliya village, 12 km away from Mahuva in Bhavnagar district where thousands of farmers had gathered on Sunday to protest against the proposed Nirma cement plant coming up at Padhiyarka village. The meet was called by Mahuva BJP MLA Kanu Kalsaria, who has been s

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Mahesh Kulkarni / Bangalore September 03, 2010, 0:56 IST The Karnataka government has been facing an uphill task in acquiring land for big-ticket steel and power projects.

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The Planning Commission is likely to moot a new formula to compensate land losers in mining projects, whereby the displaced will get an upfront payment from mining companies. The commission would suggest the plan to the mining ministry shortly, and a clear picture was likely to emerge in the next two weeks, Planning Commission Member Arun Maira said on the sidelines of a seminar by the Institut

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Nistula Hebbar New Delhi: The draft Bill for amending the 115-year-old Land Acquisition Act could undergo few changes, thanks to the intervention from the National Advisory Council headed by Sonia Gandhi.

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Dwaipayan Ghosh | TNN Greater Noida: The recent farmers’ agitation over compensation in Uttar Pradesh has had a significant impact on the Greater Noida and Yamuna Expressway authorities, with both the bodies deciding to accord priority to farmers’ interests during their respective board meetings on Tuesday. In a major development, the Yamuna Expressway Authority announced a Rs 154 per sq

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