CUDDALORE:
The Consumer Federation-Tamil Nadu has faulted the proposal of the Union government to fix compensation for lands to be acquired for industrial purposes or other projects at six times the registered value of the property.
In identical representations sent to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, federation executive secretary M. Nizamudeen said the proposed formula would do injustice to farmers.
A majority of farmers had inherited property from their ancestors and the value at the time of registration might have been much less compared with the present market value. Farmers in Cuddalore had already lost a vast stretch of cultivable lands to big industrial houses, land sharks and middlemen, who forced them to part with the property at rock bottom prices.
In certain cases, there was intimidation to sell the lands at the prices quoted by the buyers. With land resources going scarce and the farmers remaining at the receiving end, the Centre's formula would be seen as putting undue pressure on them to part with their land for a meagre sum. The Federation urged the Centre to not only fix the compensation at fair level but also make it mandatory for providing suitable relief and rehabilitation to land providers. It also put forth a demand that the land already acquired but not used for constructive purposes be returned to the farmers.
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