Land Acquisition Act: Pros and Cons of Amendments By Deepak Parvatiyar January 9, 2015 On December 29, the Narendra Modi government took the ordinance route to enforce changes in the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in the Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013. This was the third time in about a week that the government had promulgated ordinances to push its development agenda. The earlier two such ordinances being for increasing the cap from present 26 per cent to 49 per cent on foreign investment in the insurance sector; and for facilitating auctioning of coal mining licenses. Promulgating Ordinances is not a preferred practice in a Parliamentary Democracy The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government at the Centre has moved on to issue seven ordinances within a fortnight to circumvent the Parliamentary logjam during the winter session. It may be mentioned that such executive orders are generally meant to become laws
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