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Fewer Jobs And Low Incomes For Farmers Who Give Up Their Lands
Mumbai: The farmers forced into giving up their land for industry face dwindling earnings and fewer job options, increasing the likelihood of more bloody conflicts as demand for scarce land rises, experts say. Increased mechanisation is taking away some manual labour, while a lack of training of farmers and farm workers for alternate jobs is leavi...
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Telangana Farmers Who Own Land Have No Proof. How That’s Changing
Kongaragidda, Telangana: Poorly educated and with few resources, Kanasari Veeraswami had no way of proving he was the lawful owner of a small plot of land left to him by his father in Telangana. Local government officials had told him the handwritten documents he had were not acceptable. For 10 years, he lived in fear of losing the four-acre small-...
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Protests In Jharkhand After 4 Die In Police Firing Over Land Acquisition
A village in Jharkhand remained cut-off on Tuesday after a clash between protesters and police claimed four lives over the weekend.
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After Singur, Farmers In Rajarhat Want Mamata Banerjee To Return Lands
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee kept her promise at Singur. On September 14, a month and a half after a Supreme Court order, her government started returning land, acquired forcibly by the previous regime for Tata's car factory, to farmers.
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Million Telangana Farmers Swap 'Plain Paper' For Legal Ownership
When Telangana announced a three-week window for free registration of land that had exchanged hands via handwritten notes on plain paper, the offer triggered more than a million applications.
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Rahul Gandhi to Address Rally in Tamil Nadu, Meet Farmers Tomorrow
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi is expected to discuss farmers' issues including the Land bill that has led to a raging debate between the NDA and opposition, during his one-day visit to the state tomorrow.
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Farmers to Get 5-Times Compensation for Land Acquisition: Maharashtra Government
The farmers in Dondaicha constituency in Dhule district will be the first beneficiaries of five times higher compensation for land acquisition following the new rate announced by the Maharashtra government.
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Time Running Out, Land Bill Could be Taken Up in Parliament Next Week, Sources Tell NDTV
The Budget session of Parliament ends in a little over two weeks and the Narendra Modi government is again running out of time to push its crucial land acquisition bill which makes it easier to acquire land for industrial and key infrastructural projects.
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Government Hits Back at Rahul Gandhi, Says Congress Looted Farmers for 10 Years
Hitting back at the Congress after Rahul Gandhi's barbs, the government today said the party was trying to bat for the farmers' interests after "looting" them for 10 years as it insisted that it was committed to provide relief to those in distress.
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'This Government is for the Poor,' Says PM Narendra Modi at Workshop for BJP Lawmakers
A day before Parliament reconvenes for what promises to be a scorching remainder of the Budget session, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at a workshop for BJP lawmakers, "From the day I became PM, I have been working for the poor." Some hours later, the Congress' Gandhis, Sonia and Rahul, accused him of being "anti-poor" and "anti-farmer."
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Sonia Gandhi Visits Raebareli, Amethi, Meets Farmers
Congress President Sonia Gandhi today arrived in her constituency Raebareli, Uttar Pradesh and to meet farmers who suffered losses due to unseasonal rain. With her son and party Vice President Rahul Gandhi still on leave of absence, Mrs Gandhi will also extend her visit to his constituency - Amethi.
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Opposition Misleading Farmers on Land Bill, Says PM Narendra Modi in 'Mann ki Baat'
Reaching out to farmers through his monthly radio programme 'Mann ki Baat', Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said the Land Acquisition Bill is aimed at the welfare of farmers and villages.
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PM Narendra Modi to Reach Out to Farmers Through 'Mann ki Baat' Radio Programme Today
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will reach out to farmers today through his monthly radio programme, 'Mann Ki Baat', for which he has sought suggestions and inputs from them.
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For This Ambala Village British Era Land Acquisition Laws Still Exist
Farmers at a village in Haryana believe they are stuck in a time warp. Much of the land in Kaunla village in Ambala was acquired by the army from the British after independence. That land was part of 1400 acres leased by the British for 100 years in the 1850s for a cantonment. The lease expired in 1950 but the army continued to occupy the land, ...
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Compensation rate raised for Greater Noida village
The Greater Noida authority and agitating farmers of Patwari village in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday amicably settled issues related to land acquisition, with the administration raising the compensation rate, an official said.The Greater Noida authority has agreed to pay an additional compensation of Rs.550 per square metre to the agitating farmers, o...
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Fewer Jobs And Low Incomes For Farmers Who Give Up Their Lands
Mumbai: The farmers forced into giving up their land for industry face dwindling earnings and fewer job options, increasing the likelihood of more bloody conflicts as demand for scarce land rises, experts say. Increased mechanisation is taking away some manual labour, while a lack of training of farmers and farm workers for alternate jobs is leavi...
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Telangana Farmers Who Own Land Have No Proof. How That’s Changing
Kongaragidda, Telangana: Poorly educated and with few resources, Kanasari Veeraswami had no way of proving he was the lawful owner of a small plot of land left to him by his father in Telangana. Local government officials had told him the handwritten documents he had were not acceptable. For 10 years, he lived in fear of losing the four-acre small-...
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Protests In Jharkhand After 4 Die In Police Firing Over Land Acquisition
A village in Jharkhand remained cut-off on Tuesday after a clash between protesters and police claimed four lives over the weekend.
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After Singur, Farmers In Rajarhat Want Mamata Banerjee To Return Lands
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee kept her promise at Singur. On September 14, a month and a half after a Supreme Court order, her government started returning land, acquired forcibly by the previous regime for Tata's car factory, to farmers.
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Million Telangana Farmers Swap 'Plain Paper' For Legal Ownership
When Telangana announced a three-week window for free registration of land that had exchanged hands via handwritten notes on plain paper, the offer triggered more than a million applications.
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Rahul Gandhi to Address Rally in Tamil Nadu, Meet Farmers Tomorrow
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi is expected to discuss farmers' issues including the Land bill that has led to a raging debate between the NDA and opposition, during his one-day visit to the state tomorrow.
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Farmers to Get 5-Times Compensation for Land Acquisition: Maharashtra Government
The farmers in Dondaicha constituency in Dhule district will be the first beneficiaries of five times higher compensation for land acquisition following the new rate announced by the Maharashtra government.
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Time Running Out, Land Bill Could be Taken Up in Parliament Next Week, Sources Tell NDTV
The Budget session of Parliament ends in a little over two weeks and the Narendra Modi government is again running out of time to push its crucial land acquisition bill which makes it easier to acquire land for industrial and key infrastructural projects.
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Government Hits Back at Rahul Gandhi, Says Congress Looted Farmers for 10 Years
Hitting back at the Congress after Rahul Gandhi's barbs, the government today said the party was trying to bat for the farmers' interests after "looting" them for 10 years as it insisted that it was committed to provide relief to those in distress.
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'This Government is for the Poor,' Says PM Narendra Modi at Workshop for BJP Lawmakers
A day before Parliament reconvenes for what promises to be a scorching remainder of the Budget session, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at a workshop for BJP lawmakers, "From the day I became PM, I have been working for the poor." Some hours later, the Congress' Gandhis, Sonia and Rahul, accused him of being "anti-poor" and "anti-farmer."
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Sonia Gandhi Visits Raebareli, Amethi, Meets Farmers
Congress President Sonia Gandhi today arrived in her constituency Raebareli, Uttar Pradesh and to meet farmers who suffered losses due to unseasonal rain. With her son and party Vice President Rahul Gandhi still on leave of absence, Mrs Gandhi will also extend her visit to his constituency - Amethi.
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Opposition Misleading Farmers on Land Bill, Says PM Narendra Modi in 'Mann ki Baat'
Reaching out to farmers through his monthly radio programme 'Mann ki Baat', Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said the Land Acquisition Bill is aimed at the welfare of farmers and villages.
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PM Narendra Modi to Reach Out to Farmers Through 'Mann ki Baat' Radio Programme Today
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will reach out to farmers today through his monthly radio programme, 'Mann Ki Baat', for which he has sought suggestions and inputs from them.
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For This Ambala Village British Era Land Acquisition Laws Still Exist
Farmers at a village in Haryana believe they are stuck in a time warp. Much of the land in Kaunla village in Ambala was acquired by the army from the British after independence. That land was part of 1400 acres leased by the British for 100 years in the 1850s for a cantonment. The lease expired in 1950 but the army continued to occupy the land, ...
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Compensation rate raised for Greater Noida village
The Greater Noida authority and agitating farmers of Patwari village in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday amicably settled issues related to land acquisition, with the administration raising the compensation rate, an official said.The Greater Noida authority has agreed to pay an additional compensation of Rs.550 per square metre to the agitating farmers, o...
