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National Highway Act Amendment: The Ministry of Road Transport has decided to improve the process of construction of national highways in the country by amending the National Highway Act. According to sources, under this initiative, there is a preparation for a significant change in the modalities of the land acquisition process for the construction of National Highways. The Ministry of Road Transport is preparing to amend the National Highway Act to make the process of land acquisition effective and effective for the construction of national highways.
According to Times of India, this amendment proposal to the National Highway Act
- If the land acquired for the construction of the National Highway is not used for 5 years, then it will be mandatory to return it with the conditions.
- Also, the compensation amount for the acquisition of any land can be challenged within 3 months of the notification issuing.
- Compatent Authority will have to decide in such cases within 6 months.
The National Highways Builders Federation, the APEX organization of the contractors and the builders of the National Highways, has welcomed the government’s initiative. “The amendments proposed in the law will help to remove the disputes related to land acquisition during the construction of the National Highway,” Federation Director General PC Grover told NewsDeskReport. This will make it easier for the construction of national highways in future. ” After this initiative of the government, the political debate on the issue of land acquisition has intensified.
“This is a very good and necessary initiative. If any farmer’s land is taken by NHAI and later he does not know for 5 years,” told NewsDeskReport, National President of NDA Rashtriya Lok Morcha, Upendra Kushwaha.
What did Congress MP Pramod Tiwari say
Pramod Tiwari, Deputy Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha and Congress MP Pramod Tiwari told NewsDeskReport, “According to the information so far, the period of challenging the amount of compensation in the new bill is considered 3 months. I think it will not be appropriate, because many farmers will not get the complete information about land acquisition in such a short time. If the land has been acquired for the construction of the national highway and it is not used for 5 years. Needed.”
In the last few years across the country, the land has been recorded for rapid highway and exposure to the expressway. In some cases, there is a dispute about compensation.
Dispute project
- About 400 farmers are upset due to non-compensation for the land acquired for NH-22 in Jehanabad district of Bihar.
- NewsDeskReport also found hundreds of such troubled farmers in Chhindwara and Shivpuri in Madhya Pradesh.
Now it is expected that this new initiative will help in avoiding disputes related to such land acquisition in future. It has to be seen how soon the government moves forward on the proposal to amend the National Highway Act.
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