My Part
My Part
My Part
Inorder to find the actual situation on the ground, we went on field visit to understand various
perspectives of the Land acquisition by interviewing the farmer who lost his land, person who lost land
to railway project and in the PWD office so that it can cover from both the perspectives of the land
owners as well as acquirer. We also wanted to interview industrialists to know about the land
acquisition problems that the industry is facing. The current act has a set of issues though it is a gradual
improvement from the previous act which didn’t have SIA, Rehabilitation steps so understanding it in
current form is paramount for us to get the understanding.
Background : He cultivates 45 acres of coconut in his farm and it is located in southern Tamilnadu
(Virudhunagar district).He lost 5 acres of land due to the four ways project which cut his land into two
halves. He is facing trouble with the land area shrinkage as the land acquired reduced the holding in the
particular space to 7 acres which has increased his overhead costs as he need to pay for the same in the
same.
• Compensated for the value of land but got lesser compensation on the coconut tree
• Compensated at a very low rate of 17 lakh per cent when the actual value is 30+ lakh per cent
He suggested the there is a need for transparent system for implementation of the land acquisition so
that the people can understand what is going behind the process.
Government perspective
We interviewed Abdul Gafoor (Deputy executive engineer, PWD) & Shaji (Land acq, PWD) so that we can
understand land acq from government perspective we understood the process behind it and problems
faced by government in land acquisition.
Process flow
negotiating
Projects current