KCR-Rajnath hotline for land bill passage

Stepping up efforts to complete the proposed irrigation, power and drinking water projects in Telangana, chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Wednesday rang up Union home minister Rajnath Singh and requested early clearance from the Centre to the bill making amendments to the Land Acquisition Act, 2003.The bill was passed recently by the state assembly and will become an Act once the Union home and law ministries clear it and the President gives his assent.

Telangana wants the bill to be



cleared at the earliest because it has plans to acquire two lakh acres of land for several irrigation, thermal power, industrial and infrastructure projects in the state.

Apart from irrigation projects, the National Industrial Manufacturing Zone (NIMZ), thermal power projects at Bhadradri, Yadadri, Mission Bhagiratha, FiberNet and the National Highway expansion projects require huge tracts of land and the acquisition is possible only after the amendments to the Act is in place.