This refers to Sreenivasan Jain's column "The noise around the land acquisition law" (The Thick of It, March 3). The land acquisition law should have a provision on compensation for acquiring land from the owners - instead of cash, the party acquiring land should give the owners another piece of land elsewhere. This will put to rest all the controversies surrounding land acquisition. The owner will not feel that only the acquiring party will benefit from an increase in the cost of land - the owner will also benefit if there is any such increase. Also, acquiring agrarian land for non-agricultural purposes is not good for food security.
Deendayal M Lulla Mumbai
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