New Delhi: Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh today said the Supreme Court judgement upholding the retrospective clause of the new Land Acquisition Act has drawn “clear and humane lines” for the implementation of a significant clause in the law.
He said that the March 14 judgement by a two-judge Supreme Court bench deals with land acquisition which had been pending for over the prescribed five year period (in the retrospective clause-section 24).
“In this case, the award had been passed in 1995 and the parties had still not accepted compensation or parted with possession. In light of this, the Supreme Court, relying on the retrospective clause, ordered the return of the land to the original owners,” the Minister said in a release here.
The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act 2013, enacted by Parliament in September last year to provide just and fair compensation to those whose land is taken away for constructing roads, buildings or factories, had come into force from January 1, replacing the 120-year-old legislation.
