The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2012 The Bill will replace the existing Land Acquisition Act, 1894. State still holds crucial
Fear dilution of proposals, in favour of pro-market and anti-PDS views. The Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council
Despite revised norms, the compensation package for farmers who lose land is usually just a tiny fraction of the entire project cost. What does it cost a company to compensate the people from whom it buys land?
The registrar of trade unions in Rajasthan has refused permission to National Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGA) workers to form a union, on the grounds that they do not qualify as workmen. When the Majdoor Kisan Sangharsh Samiti
Social activists have alleged that the UPA government is undermining the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) by modifying several provisions in the law. The concerns were raised by activists Jean Dreze, Aruna Roy, Nikhil De, Annie Raja and Reetika Khera at a press conference, here. Last week, the government had declared that it will not link the Minimum Wage Act to NREGA wages.
<p>The road leading up to the Centre’s denial of permission to Vedanta Alumina Ltd to mine for bauxite in the Niyamagiri hills of Lanjigarh has been lined with gross violations and misrepresentation by both the company and the state government of Orissa<br />
Sreelatha Menon / Tappal (uttar Pradesh) August 23, 2010, 0:46 IST<br /><br />Farmers
Right to Food Movement, a network of NGOs favouring a food security law, said the NAC should address issues of abundance of food and efficiency of a public distribution system before finalising the draft on food security Bill.
Indians believe in holidays. But for years the most common reason given for getting away was to visit one
The National Advisory Council, chaired by Congress party president Sonia Gandhi, met for the second time today after its recent revival and unanimously endorsed the idea of universal access to the public distribution system in rural areas. It was agreed that a universalised PDS should be implemented initially in 150 districts, a member said.
It was the night between December 2 and 3 in 1984. It was a night when graveyards in Old Bhopal ran short of space and cloth merchants threw open their shops at midnight, freely donating any length of cloth to cover the endless corpses that were to be cremated or buried
