Agricultural Land Acquisition and its impact on livelihood of farmers in Kurukshetra

Abstract

Land acquisition means acquiring of land for some public motive via authorities enterprise as authorized by way of the law from the individual landowner after paying a few repayment in lieu losses occurred to land owner due to surrendering of his land to the involved authorities agency subsequent amendment allowed to authorities to accumulate land for organizations providing to make use of the land in the direction of the land in the direction of a public reason. There were various adjustments have taken in places all through previous few years. The primary government became pressured to reexamine the existing land acquisition framework as laid down by way of the land acquisition Act 1894.The land acquisition act 1984 is a law in India that allows the government to acquired private land in our country. Presently the land Acquisition process is carried out under the provisions of the Land Acquisition Act 1894 which came into force w.e.f. 2 February, 1899. This Act has amended from time to time (In Pre- Independence and Post- Independence). So far the Act has been Amended 17 times. Since 1960‘s large scale acquisition is also being done for companies and private sector various sections of the Act have by the state government to meet their specific requirements. The land acquisition Act of 1894 was created with the expressed purpose of facilitating the government‘s acquisition of privately held land for public purposes. The word ―Government‖ refers to the central government if the purpose for acquisition is for the union and for all other purpose it refers the state government. It is not necessary that all the acquisition has to be initiated by the government alone. Local authorities, societies registered under the society‘s registration act 1860 and co-operative societies establish under the co-operative societies act can also acquire the land for development activities through the government.