New Delhi: The JPC on the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Second Amendment) Bill 2015, is scheduled to meet on Monday to complete the formalities on winding up the deliberations on the NDA’s 2015 ordinance, which had been promulgated in December 2014 to enforce its own land legislation.
Sources said that once all the 11 BJP members of the JPC on August 3, 2015, agreed on bringing back the key provisions of the UPA’s 2013 land legislation — like the consent clause and social impact assessment — , the committee ceased to hold any significance.
Panel to fine tune clauses of Land acquisition Bill
The JPC on the Land Acquisition Bill 2015 is scheduled to complete the formalities on winding up the deliberations on the NDA’s 2015 ordinance. Mr Modi himself announced that the ordinance would not be repromulgated.
Therefore, during the March 14 meeting, sources added, the joint Parliamentary panel headed by BJP MP S.S. Ahluwalia is likely to fine tune some of the clauses on which earlier there was no consensus between the Opposition and ruling party members.
In November last year, finance minister Arun Jaitley had hoped for “some consensus” on the legislation. These clauses include the one on return of unutilised land to its owners after five years.
If the consensus emergers on these remaining clauses, then this well could be the last meeting of the panel, which has already been given five extensions to submit its report on the key legislation.
At the panel’s meeting on August 3 last year, the Bhartiya Janta Party had agreed to bring back the key provisions of UPA’s land law including the ones on consent clause and social impact assessment.
