Telangana Assembly on Wednesday Dec 28,2016 passed a new bill for land acquisition by tweaking the central government`s Land Acquisition Act, 2013.
"The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Telangana Amendment) Act, 2016" was passed amid protest by main opposition Congress.
Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao said the state legislation was better than "The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013". He said the central Act was brought in an irresponsible fashion.
He said Gujarat, Rajasthan and some other states had already enacted their own land acquisition Acts to speed up land acquisition for completing the projects.
The Chief Minister dismissed the Congress`s argument that the state has no right to amend a central Act, pointing out that under Article 254 of the Constitution, the state had a right to pass its own legislation on a subject which is in concurrent list.
He also told the House that the bill was passed on the advice of the Prime Minister and after getting the nod from the central government.
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