Minister of State for Civil Aviation Jayant Sinha Minister of State for Civil Aviation Jayant SinhaAcquisition of land without development, providing jobs and market-linked compensation was not possible in Indian politics, Minister of State for Civil Aviation Jayant Sinha said on Saturday. “When land acquisition is done, rehabilitation and resettlement plays a critical role. “Dispossession without development under the 2013 (land acquisition act) and under Indian politics was not possible,” Sinha said, while commenting on an upcoming book on land acquisition experience in Rajasthan by Johns Hopkins University’s Assistant Professor Michael Levien. Levien disagreed with Sinha and argued that there are still many places in India where land acquisition happens through coercion. The bulk of land acquisition in India was not done under the Centre’s land acquisition law but under separate acts, he said.

Source: Indian Express July 08, 2017 19:52 UTC