Land bill a 'win-win formula' for farmers: Prakash Javadekar

NEW DELHI: Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar today termed the land bill as a "win-win formula" for farmers.

"... It will ensure a win-win formula for farmers...," he said on the sidelines of a book launch function at the Maharashtra Sadan here.

Referring to the opposition faced by the government including from its allies to the Land Acquisition Bill, he said, "I think collective wisdom will prevail and things will get sorted out."

The land bill faces opposition over some of its provisions which include doing away with the consent of farmers for acquiring their land in the amended law and preventing the peasants even from moving the court against acquisition of their land.

The NDA government had earlier promulgated an ordinance and has now introduced a bill in Lok Sabha to seek parliamentary approval for it.

Javadekar shared the dais with noted environmentalist Sunita Narain and historian-cum-food critic Pushpesh Pant while releasing the book on non vegetarian gourmet from Maharashtra authored by Aditya Mehendale.