Indian Land Scams: Mayawati announces new land acquisition policy!

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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati. File photo.

Under pressure over farmers’ agitation, the Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday announced a new land acquisition policy under which its role in acquiring land for private developers would only be that of a facilitator.

The chief minister, who held a farmers’ panchayat earlier in the day to discuss their problems, announced that the new policy will be implemented with immediate effect.

Facing flak over acquiring land for private companies, the government has decided that from now on, the developers would be acquiring land directly from the farmers.

After witnessing what has happened in Batta-Parsaul twin Villages, Grater NOIDA, U.P., I am skeptical about the meaning of 'only facilitation', which could well be perpetration of another 

Batta-Parsaul like police brutality to scare the people to part with their land at dictated prices.

Come to AP's Srikakulam District, how the state Administration and the Security forces are quelling the agitating farmers and fisher-folk, against the forceful land acquisitions.

Full story at,

http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/other-states/article2070993.ece