(LAND ACQUISITION/ SEZ) Have a fresh look at Land acquisition Bill, Brinda urges UPA... VISAKHAPATNAM: CPI(M) Polit Bureau member Brinda Karat on Saturday described as ‘historic’ the Supreme Court order making the gram sabha consent a pre-requisite for going ahead with the controversial Vedanta project in Odisha. She urged the UPA government to take a fresh look at the Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2011. Instead of rushing the Bill through claiming that there was a broad consensus, she demanded that it be referred to a Parliamentary Select Committee. She alleged that the Bill, seeking to replace the Land Acquisition Act of 1894, had been diluted at the behest of private mining lobby. Ms. Karat, who was here to attend a two-day national executive meeting of the Adivasi Adhikar Rashtriya Manch, told reporters that the Bill in its current form was totally unacceptable to the Left parties. “It is totally against the interests of tribals due to certain objectionable provisions.” She said the apex court order had substantiated their argument that the Odisha government’s decision to grant bauxite mining lease in the Niyamgiri hills to Vedanta and allow it to set up a bauxite mine and refinery in Jagatsinghpur bulldozing the struggle against it by tribals was ‘against the law of the land.’ (The Hindu 21/4/13)
Posted on: Wed, 05 Jun 2013 11:33:16 +0000
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