The Rehabilitation and Resettlement Policy for farmers affected by large industrial projects, including SEZs , will be cleared by the Cabinet in the next few days.
NEW DELHI: The Rehabilitation and Resettlement Policy for farmers affected by large industrial projects, including SEZs , will be cleared by the Cabinet in the next few days and will come up for discussion in Parliament in the current session itself.
"The Group of Ministers has finalised the R R policy which will now go to the Cabinet and then will be discussed in Parliament," a senior official said on Saturday.
The GoM on the R R policy was headed by Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar and comprised Finance Minister P Chidambaram, Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath, Rural Development Minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh and Science and Technology Minister Kapil Sibal.
At its meeting on August 30, the GoM suggested that states be allowed to acquire 30 per cent of land required for Special Economic Zones, in contrast to a decision by a different panel imposing a total ban on compulsory land acquisition by government agencies.
This has been done to facilitate contiguity of land by the developers who would be required to directly buy 70 per cent of it from the farmers.
The decision is not specific to SEZs but would apply to all industrial projects, Sibal had said after the GoM meeting.
As for the rehabilitation measures, Sibal has stated that the government would "give a historic law to the country consistent with our objective that justice should be done (to farmers)"
The GoM was constituted after a widespread opposition in the country to the compulsory land acquisition by the states.
In April this year, the Empowered Group of Ministers on SEZs headed by External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee had imposed a ban on compulsory acquisition of land, while fixing an upper limit of 5,000 hectares for multi-product zones.
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