Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan reformed the Joint Parliamentry Committe(JPC) for Land Acquistion Bill and appointed Ganesh Singh, member of parliament of BJP from Satna constituency of Madhya Pradesh as its new head.
According to a notification issued from Lok Sabha secretariat, Ms Mahajan appointed Mr Singh as head of the 30 member Joint Committee on the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Second Amendment) Bill, 2015.
He was a member of 13th and 14th lok Sabha and this is the third term for Mr Singh.
He was a member of 13th and 14th lok Sabha and this is the third term for Mr Singh.
Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Second Amendment) Bill, 2015
- This bill is popularly known as Land bill, was adopted by the Lok Sabha .
- The Bill enables the government to exempt five categories of projects from the requirements of: (i) social impact assessment, (ii) restrictions on acquisition of multi-cropped land, and (iii) consent for private projects and public private partnerships (PPPs) projects.
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The Bill creates five special categories of land use. They are (i) defence (ii) affordable housing (iii) rural infrastructure (iv) industrial corridors and (v) infrastructure including PPPs where government owns the land.
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It removes clause of that makes head of a government department guilty for an offence by the department. It adds provision of prior sanction to prosecute a government employee.
