NIODA ILLEGAL CONSTRUCTIONS: Ray of hope for flat aspirants in Noida Extn, deal struck!

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August 6, 2011 / PTI, Greater NOIDA / DC.

In a ray of hope for 20,000 aspirants for flats in Noida Extension, Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority on Saturday struck a deal with farmers of Patwari village under which the peasants will withdraw the case in the Allahabad High Court that had quashed land acquisition in the area.

As part of the deal on land compensation and other issues, Patwari farmers will move the court to withdraw the court case. Land acquisition in Patwari was quashed by the Allahabad High Court on July 26.

The court, after a review petition had referred the cases to larger bench as interests of several stakeholders were involved.

However, the court had allowed authorities to negotiate with farmers and reach an out-of-court settlement by August 12

Gautam Budh Nagar MP Surinder Singh Nagar said that as per agreement, farmers will get compensation at Rs1400 per square meter, which means they will get an additional compensation of Rs550 per square meter as they had already taken the compensation at Rs850 per square meter when the land was acquired from them.

Further, farmers will get an additional 2 per cent of developed land. As per policy, they were entitled to 6 per cent developed land and now it will be 8 per cent, Nagar said.

Under the agreement, the developed land will be given in sector having 12 meter wide roads, said Nagar. Regarding abadi land (farmers' settlement), GNIDA agreed to leave the abadi as they exist today out of land acquisition and no back lease need to be done for this, he added.

Further, under the agreement, 10 per cent seats for farmers' children will be reserved in all schools and colleges to be set up on their land, Nagar said: "It will be binding on all such institutions".

Village development funds would be increased and more schools set up in villages. Concrete roads, sewer network and other infrastructure would be developed at par with the sectors, said Nagar.

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Moroccans get set to vote on new constitution!

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AP / The Hindu /  RABAT, July 1, 2011.

Workers install a banner in support of Yes to the Referendum for the new constitution expected on first July in Rabat, Morocco, on Wednesday, as women are seen dancing to celebrate victory before. The banner reads " La bonne Galette say yes to referendum" - AP.

Moroccans voted on Friday on whether to adopt a new constitution that the king has championed as an answer to demands for greater freedoms — but that protesters say will still leave the monarch firmly in control.

The referendum on the constitution is near certain to result in a resounding “yes” vote, like all past referendums in this North African country and generally throughout the Arab world.

It’s buoyed by a huge media and government campaign, and is seen by some as a way to tentatively open up Moroccan politics while heading off the kind of tumultuous regime change seen elsewhere in the region.

Moroccans started heading to the country’s nearly 40,000 polling stations at 8 a.m. local time. Preliminary results are expected after polls close on Friday night.

A popular tourist destination, this generally stable, Muslim kingdom is a staunch U.S. ally in a strategic swath of northern Africa that has suffered terrorist attacks — and in recent months, popular uprisings against autocratic regimes.

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SOUTH ASIA: Bangladesh: restoring secular Constitution!

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HAROON HABIB / THE HINDU / June 25, 2011.

"The ruling alliance, led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, holds a three-fourths majority in Parliament, more than the two-thirds required for bringing changes to the Constitution." Here, Sheikh Hasina addresses the United Nations General Assembly. File photo: AP.

Two Supreme Court verdicts declaring the controversial fifth and eighths amendments void have brightened the scope for a meaningful constitutional change.

For the first time after 1975, Bangladesh has got the opportunity to correct calculated distortions to its original Constitution framed in 1972, following independence of former East Pakistan. The ruling grand alliance, led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, holds a three-fourths majority in Parliament, more than the two-thirds required for bringing changes to the Constitution.

Understandably, the huge majority of the pro-liberation ruling coalition has become an irritant to the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party, the Jamaat-e-Islami and their fundamentalist allies, which think that they may be weakened if the distortions are corrected and secular principles restored.

The two recent landmark verdicts delivered by the Supreme Court declaring the controversial fifth and eighth amendments — brought in by military rulers General Ziaur Rahman and General Hussain Muhammad Ershad — unconstitutional and void have brightened the scope for a meaningful change. Declaring military rule unconstitutional, the court restored the four basic principles — democracy, nationalism, socialism and secularism — which were the pillars of the state.

The Awami League-led alliance, bound by its promise to restore the lost state principles, formed a special parliamentary committee for recommending suitable amendments. The committee, after a year-long exercise, placed its recommendations before Parliament. These recommendations will be included in the upcoming Constitution bill, to be endorsed by Parliament.

Resistance to the changes in all conceivable ways, to deflect the ruling alliance from its avowed path, was expected from the political beneficiaries of the fifth and eighth amendments — the fundamentalists and pro-Islamists. Interestingly, the Sheik Hasina-led coalition has started facing opposition from among its own supporters who fear that the government, due to its “misconceived political readings,” may fall into a trap.

These sections, the vanguard of the nation's secular ethos — freedom fighters, cultural and women activists, leading professional groups in the greater civil society spectrum — allege that while the government proposes to restore ‘secularism,' it also intends retaining some provisions which are in sharp contradiction to secularism and the spirit of the Liberation War.

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MOROCCO REFORMS: Morocco to hold referendum on democratic constitution

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PAUL SCHEMM / The Associated Press / Published Friday, Jun. 17, 2011 4:55PM EDT / Last updated Saturday, Jun. 18, 2011 8:20AM EDT

Moroccan King Mohammed VI announced a series of constitutional reforms in a speech Friday night that he said will turn the North African country into a constitutional monarchy, though pro-democracy activists remain skeptical.

Under the new constitution, the king will remain the supreme commander of the army and a new article formalized him as the highest religious authority in the country. The speech marked the culmination of a three-month review of the constitution at the order of the king after protests calling for reform swept the North African monarchy in February.

Immediately after the speech ended, cars flying Moroccan flags drove through the streets of the capital honking their horns, and young people marched along the wide boulevards banging drums and cheering.

Morocco has long had a parliamentary system with dozens of parties, but they remain weak and many are beholden to the king and his advisers.

While the king himself remains popular, there is deep dissatisfaction over the government and the advisers around the monarchy whom are believed to be corrupt and rapacious.

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Nepal extends term of Constituent Assembly to avert crisis!

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Chairman of Communist party of Nepal (Maoist) Pushpa Kamal Dahal walks inside the Constitutional Assembly building in Katmandu, Nepal on Sunday. - AP.

Averting a major Constitutional crisis, Nepal’s key parties on Sunday agreed to extend the tenure of the Constituent Assembly by three months in a last-minute deal under which Prime Minister Jhalanath Khanal will step down for the formation of a national consensus government.

The breakthrough came after overnight consultations between main political parties — Nepali Congress, the Maoists and CPN-UML — to forge a five-point agreement on the peace process and extending the term of Constituent Assembly which expired last night.

Out of 508 parliament members, 504 lawmakers voted in the favour of the bill for 9th amendment of the Constitution seeking to extend the term of the Constituent Assembly for three months.

After successfully throwing out the Monarchy Nepalese are still unable to bring in a Constitution that can make it a Democratic Republic, thanks the local communists.

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