Unlocking land assets

Transparent allocation policy for available land needed

A study by the Centre for Policy Research has shown that there has been a sharp rise in the number of land-related cases before the Supreme Court. In the past three years, as many as 280 cases have come up before the apex court pleading for annulling acquisition of land under the provisions of the Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (LARR) Act of 2013. What is more significant is that in almost 95 per cent of the cases, the Supreme Court has invalidated acquisition of land on terms earlier approved by the authorities. Almost three-fourths of the cases pertain to