India land ordinance with 9 changes |
The government of India has moved to get the Land Acquisition Ordinance re-promulgated, and the Union Cabinet gave approval for it. The Land Acquisition Ordinance — promulgated on December 31, 2014 — was set to lapse on April 5. Having managed to get the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Amendment) Bill, 2015 passed by the Lok Sabha in the first half of the Budget session, the government faced the opposition roadblock in the Rajya Sabha. An ordinance is valid for six months, it has to be endorsed by Parliament within six weeks of the beginning of the next session. Since Parliament is in recess and will only meet again on April 20, the government had to re-promulgate the Ordinance. The Cabinet had cleared ex post facto all the nine official amendments that had been incorporated when the Land Acquisition Bill was passed by the Lok Sabha recently. Now, the new Ordinance will incorporate all those nine amendments.
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