Indian Railways Bullet Train project: PM Modi gets this letter about rules not being followed
In a letter to the Prime Minister, the Rajya Sabha MP said that according to complaints filed by farmer representatives, rules and procedures under the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013, were not being adhered to for land acquisition for the project.
Indian Railways Bullet Train project: Senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel has alleged that rules and procedures are not being followed while acquiring land for the proposed Ahmedabad-Mumbai Bullet train project, and sought Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s intervention to ensure that farmers’ rights are not violated. The National High Speed Rail Corporation (NHSRC) along with district officials initiated the process of acquiring land across several districts in south Gujarat for the Rs1.10 lakh crore bullet train project connecting Ahmedabad and Mumbai.
In a letter to the Prime Minister, the Rajya Sabha MP said that according to complaints filed by farmer representatives, rules and procedures under the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013, were not being adhered to for land acquisition for the project. A little over 612 hectare land needs to be acquired in the state.
In a letter to the Prime Minister, the Rajya Sabha MP said that according to complaints filed by farmer representatives, rules and procedures under the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013, were not being adhered to for land acquired for the project.
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“The public consultation process as mandated under the above Act must be carried out by sufficient notice and adequate publicity. However, farmer groups have raised objections that such meetings are being conducted barely at a day’s notice and without adequate publicity. This defeats the very purpose of the consultation process,” Patel said in the letter.
The Congress leader further said that Gujarat government was conducting the land acquisition exercise under a diluted version of the 2013 Land Act, which ran contrary to the law passed by Parliament.
“Under the Gujarat government’s regulations, the need for mandatory consent of farmers and social impact assessment has been done away with. By doing away with these processes, the land acquisition process may descend down to mere tokenism,” Patel claimed in the letter.
Source: DNA India
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