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In this chapter, we start by providing a few anecdotes in the context of various land acquisitions in the US and within India, where the outcomes have been diverse. With this as a setting, we look at the story of land acquisition in India from Independence until 1991; and then after the liberalization of the economy. We discuss the perceived political need for the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 (LARR). We argue that setting LARR 2013 in the ‘Rights-based approach’ was both erroneous and dysfunctional. The result of this was the marginalization of the law by the National Democratic Alliance government in July 2016, when the then Finance Minister Arun Jaitley opined that the states were free to have their own laws. This shows that the legislature shirked its responsibility, and an opportunity to build up a consensus was lost.
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Sathe, D. (2020). LARR 2013: What Does It Deliver?. In: Mishra, D., Nayak, P. (eds) Land and Livelihoods in Neoliberal India. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3511-6_13
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