The rural development ministry has come out with draft rules for the land acquisition bill which is only in the stage of being processed by...

Announcing the decision, Arun Jaitley said, "The changes in Land Acquisition Act have been done after extensive consultations with states."

Industries have complained that the law has made land acquisition very difficult, affecting speedy implementation of projects.

Tata Steel Group ED Koushik Chatterjee said Rehabilitation and Resettlement provision in the recently passed Land Acquisition would ensure ...

All state governments are free to enact their own land acquisition laws, but they cannot undermine the law enacted by the Centre, Ramesh sa...

GoM formed to examine certain provisions of the controversial Land Acquisition Bill met today but no decisions were taken in the meeting.

Five senior ministers have said the bill, in its current form, would come in the way of industrialisation and urbanisation.

Sensing differences within Cabinet over the land acquisition bill, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh referred it to a group of ministers on Tue...

Special Economic Zones will need to fulfill provisions of the proposed Land Acquisition and Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill.

CIL has introduced a more flexible policy for resettling and rehabilitating people affected by its mining projects, the government said.

Parl panel proposed tougher norms for acquiring land for industrial use, as it finalised the new Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Reset...

According to the bill, rehabilitation and resettlement provisions will apply only when private firms buy land for a project.

Govt has defended its new land bill as industry-friendly, refuting criticism that it would push up costs for state-run, pvt cos

Te much-anticipated upgrade on India's antiquated land acquisition laws will be considered by the Cabinet next week.

Railway minister Mamata Banerjee is understood to have raised serious objection to the bill relating to land acquisition for industrialisat...

Developers of special economic zones (SEZs) may have to employ one person from each family displaced due to a project even if the family di...

NEW DELHI: THE country's land acquisition law is set to be changed. Yet, one of the changes sought to be made is likely to open the Pandora...