Newly proposed Land Acquisition Bill is unworkable says industrialist Ajit Gulabchand

In an open chat on Idea Exchange with the Loksatta Team, Industrialist & HCC Chairman & MD Shri. Ajit Gulabchand aired his views on the Land Acquisition Act. This Act was drafted in 1894 with the expressed purpose of facilitating the government’s acquisition of privately held land for Public purposes. But the bill currently proposed by the centre is unworkable. The provisions in the bill are unrealistic and next-to-impossible to implement.