POLICY AND PRACTICE OF LAND ACQUISITION IN DELHI: MAPPING THE (IN) APTNESS OF LARR ACT, 2013 IN URBAN SPACES

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Dr. Deeksha Bajpai Tewari , Dr. Upma Gautam

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The present paper elaborates on the provisions of The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in LARR Act-2013 for the urban areas. The article focuses on the specific issues of urban land acquisition, compensation, and social impact assessment. It further elucidates the efforts at "circumventing', if any, by the State Governments by issuing their own land acquisition rules and the significance of such regulations for urban areas. The paper elaborates on the legal conundrum that has ensued because the affected persons in the urban areashave taken the course to the Courts. In this paper, the authors present the case studies of land acquisition in NCT of Delhi, especially after the 2013 Act. The present article also highlights the alternative policy mechanisms like land pooling, which may facilitate the conflict-stricken process of land acquisition in urban India, especially Delhi.


 

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