Land Acquisition Bill

2014
From Singur to Niyamgiri
India on the back foot

My house is prime
property!
Can you please stop the
Peddar Road flyover ?

Oh ! we cannot
demolish houses of
Delhi's elite
Can we have single lane
flyovers in this city ?
Even if it causes traffic snarls

And then there is this

argument....

My farmland is not
negotiable

Damn your
national project !

Right ! Mr Kejiriwal, Anna Hazare,

Medha Patkar, Lalu, Mulayam,
Sharad Yadav, Nitish Kumar, Mamta
Banerjee,........

..... and Mrs Sonia Gandhi

In Dec 2012 UPA chief Sonia

Gandhi scrapped the Land
Bill proposal approved by a
cabinet committee of the
UPA Government

A new Land Acquisition act

requiring
80% consent for
private projects and
70% for government
projects was put into place
in 2013

At the behest of the NAC

chaired by Sonia Gandhi the
social impact assessment
clause was added.

The law would give

enormous power to NGO's
like the NAC and the
politicians of UPA

It would allow them to stop

industrialization of India,
that the NAC and its
supporters wanted.

The UPA law drew inspiration

from :

The stalled manufacture of

Tata Nano car project at
Singur West Bengal

Fomenting agitation
against land acquisition
Mamta's Trinamool congress
ended the 30 year old CPM
rule in West Bengal

It also drew inspiration from the

stalled Vedanta aluminium project
at Kalahandi Orissa, India's
poorest district

when the UPA stopped

bauxite mining at
neighboring Niyamgiri

The UPA knew that fomenting

tribal dissent would give
them and the NGO's
unlimited power over India's
untapped mineral wealth of
bauxite resources.

The stalled 5-million-tonne

greenfield Lanjigarh aluminium
refinery plant and the
Jharsuguda aluminum smelter
would provide 5000 jobs for
the states

However such large projects

would bring down aluminium
prices globally

And it is here that the

interests of the UPA aligned
with Canadian NGO's and
mining giants

For the UPA was not the only party that

wanted to control the growth of bauxite
mining.
....it had international support

Keeping Vedanta, Posco and Arcelor Mittal

away from Indias mines is a
global -strategy
pursued by both multinational mining
companies as well as NGOs working for
tribal and ecosystem status quo in third
world nations

The policy to keep

developing nations off
mining was first outlined
by the Canadian PM
Stephen Harper in 2007

Thereafter Canadian
International Development
Agency CIDA and mining giants
like Rio Tinto Alcan financed
NGO's in India and other
emerging countries to help stop
bauxite mining

Canadian NGO's like

World Vision, Plan Canada
and WUSC financed and
fomented the initial
agitations against mining in
third world countries.

In India it started with the Niyamgiri hill

range that is spread over 250 sq km and
contains bauxite reserves of about
seventy million tons and is home to 1,453
members of the Dongria tribe

Bauxite mining was stopped in

Niyamgiri because the tribals
worshipped the entire hill !!!

As per the constitution of

India natural resources is
national property to be used
for national good.

If I find Gold or Silver under my

ancestral house, its not mine,
but a national property.
Right ?

So how is bauxite from Niyamgiri,

the property of the Gods of
the Dongria tribe of 1453 people ?

Why must we have consent

clause for mining in tribal areas
?
why do national projects like roads,
bridges,
infra structure or projects where
large employment avenues are created
need consent of individuals or the
gods?

How are the rights of 1453

tribals of Niyamgiri greater
than the rights of 1.3 billion
Indians ?

Maintaining Status Quo means no

development for tribals and
farmers and 1.3 billion Indians

It means sustenance
through dole based
economic measures like
MGNREGA
It means dependence on a
MAI BAAP SARKAR, on Kissan
Leaders and on NGO's who would
fetch the poor grant based
sustenance

But we want jobs

not doles

This is why we voted against UPA

overwhelmingly in May 2014

The UPA and the opposition however

holds the cards in the Rajya Sabha

The NGO's still control

crowds from Ralegaon
Siddhi to Jantar Mantar

However we the voters of

India are many more in
number.
if we choose not to keep
quite !

We voters must make

development actually
happen?

We must have jobs !

Drop consent clause in land

bill
Your consent as landowners is
not more vital than our jobs !
Let national projects acquire
land without consent clause !

Change the Land Law

!
we don't want dole based
governance.
http://blogs.economictimes.indiatimes.com/W
hathappensif/my-land-is-more-vital-than-yournational-project-from-singur-to-niyamgiri/

Let India have roads,

let India have bridges,
let India have factories,

Let India have jobs !

The above presentation draws

data from the book
Neta, Babu & Subsidy :
Roundup 2000 to 2014
http://www.infibeam.com/Books/neta-babusubsidy-sandip-sen/9789382711377.html
and on Kindle
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Neta-Babu-Subsidy-rou
ndup-2000-2014-ebook/dp/B00JKC0YO6