'Land Acquisition Act in India : Impact on environment & livelihood, 1824-2013' a talk by Prof. Velayutham Saravanan at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 15th April 2014
Time : 3:00 pm
Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Place : Seminar Room, Library Building, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi - 110011
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Event Description : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to the Weekly Seminar on ‘Land Acquisition Act in India : Impact on environment and livelihood, 1824-2013’ by Prof. Velayutham Saravanan, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.
Abstract : Land acquisition for public purpose is not only a threat to the livelihood options of the farmers but also to the ecology and environment. Since the early nineteenth century, a separate act was enacted at the Presidency level to acquire land for public purposes. In the mid-nineteenth century i.e., 1857, a common act was enacted for the country as a whole. Several additional provisions were included in the subsequent decades. Land Acquisition Act 1894 was a comprehensive one which extensively used to acquire land for the various development activities. However, the colonial government has exercised this act only in a limited extent because of its limited development activities. Unlike the colonial government, the post-colonial government gave priorities for the various developmental activities in different plan periods. Consequently, this act was extensively used to acquire land during the last more than six and a half decades. During the post-independence period, several amendments were made in this act that has brought serious consequences on acquiring lands and that has became a sombre threat not only for the farmer livelihood options but also to the ecologically and environmentally important common property resources. At the same time, there is no government policy for rehabilitation and resettlement of the displaced people. This has resulted in the farmers to forgo their assets without any alternative livelihood options. Even the compensation provided by the government is based on the registration value of land sales price which is many-fold lower than the actual market value, further adding to the problem. In addition, the `real estate’ construction company also further aggravated this problem, particularly during the last three-four decades. This article argues how the land acquisition policies shrinked the livelihood options of the farmers without appropriate rehabilitation and resettlement policies and how it has caused a threat to ecology and environment in a historical perspective for about two centuries, from early nineteenth century to early twenty-first century (1824-2013).
Speaker : Prof. Velayutham Saravanan is engaged with economic and environmental history and his area of study pertaining to South India encompasses the late eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries besides the contemporary period. With interdisciplinary research interests, he has made significant contributions to the fields of economic history, environmental history, agrarian history, history of water conflicts, history of Scheduled Tribes problems, labour issues, and human rights, etc. His published works demonstrate a consistent multi-disciplinary approach to understand the political economy of Tamil Nadu in particular and South India in general, with contemporary relevance. He has contributed a number of research articles both in national and international journals viz., Modern Asian Studies (MAS), Environment and History (E&H), The International Journal of Human Rights (IJHR), Journal of Forest Economics (JFE), Indian Economic and Social History Review (IESHR), Indian Economic Journal (IEJ), Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics (IJAE), Indian Journal of Labour Economics (IJLE) etc. He was earlier with the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi, Centre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS), Hyderabad, Giri Institute of Development Studies (GIDS), Lucknow, and Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai.
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Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Place : Seminar Room, Library Building, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi - 110011
Venue Info : Events | About | Map | Nearest Metro Station - 'Race Course(Yellow Line)'
Event Description : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to the Weekly Seminar on ‘Land Acquisition Act in India : Impact on environment and livelihood, 1824-2013’ by Prof. Velayutham Saravanan, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.
Abstract : Land acquisition for public purpose is not only a threat to the livelihood options of the farmers but also to the ecology and environment. Since the early nineteenth century, a separate act was enacted at the Presidency level to acquire land for public purposes. In the mid-nineteenth century i.e., 1857, a common act was enacted for the country as a whole. Several additional provisions were included in the subsequent decades. Land Acquisition Act 1894 was a comprehensive one which extensively used to acquire land for the various development activities. However, the colonial government has exercised this act only in a limited extent because of its limited development activities. Unlike the colonial government, the post-colonial government gave priorities for the various developmental activities in different plan periods. Consequently, this act was extensively used to acquire land during the last more than six and a half decades. During the post-independence period, several amendments were made in this act that has brought serious consequences on acquiring lands and that has became a sombre threat not only for the farmer livelihood options but also to the ecologically and environmentally important common property resources. At the same time, there is no government policy for rehabilitation and resettlement of the displaced people. This has resulted in the farmers to forgo their assets without any alternative livelihood options. Even the compensation provided by the government is based on the registration value of land sales price which is many-fold lower than the actual market value, further adding to the problem. In addition, the `real estate’ construction company also further aggravated this problem, particularly during the last three-four decades. This article argues how the land acquisition policies shrinked the livelihood options of the farmers without appropriate rehabilitation and resettlement policies and how it has caused a threat to ecology and environment in a historical perspective for about two centuries, from early nineteenth century to early twenty-first century (1824-2013).
Speaker : Prof. Velayutham Saravanan is engaged with economic and environmental history and his area of study pertaining to South India encompasses the late eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries besides the contemporary period. With interdisciplinary research interests, he has made significant contributions to the fields of economic history, environmental history, agrarian history, history of water conflicts, history of Scheduled Tribes problems, labour issues, and human rights, etc. His published works demonstrate a consistent multi-disciplinary approach to understand the political economy of Tamil Nadu in particular and South India in general, with contemporary relevance. He has contributed a number of research articles both in national and international journals viz., Modern Asian Studies (MAS), Environment and History (E&H), The International Journal of Human Rights (IJHR), Journal of Forest Economics (JFE), Indian Economic and Social History Review (IESHR), Indian Economic Journal (IEJ), Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics (IJAE), Indian Journal of Labour Economics (IJLE) etc. He was earlier with the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi, Centre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS), Hyderabad, Giri Institute of Development Studies (GIDS), Lucknow, and Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai.
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'Land Acquisition Act in India : Impact on environment & livelihood, 1824-2013' a talk by Prof. Velayutham Saravanan at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 15th April 2014
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