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The parliamentary standing committee on rural growth and panchayati raj will current a report on the impression of mining and industrial corridors on rural individuals and land throughout Parliament’s monsoon season, individuals conscious of the matter stated.
Final Wednesday, the committee met with officers from the mines ministry, the land sources division within the rural growth ministry, and the tribal affairs ministry. It mentioned protests in Odisha’s Rayagada over the development of a highway for Sijimali bauxite mines, land acquisition for the Ken Betwa River Linking undertaking in Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, points associated to forest clearances, gram sabha consent processes, and their faking.
The standing committee will method the setting, forests, and local weather change ministry for feedback on forest clearance-related issues, and a civil society organisation from one of many affected areas.
Non-documentation of opposition of native communities to mining tasks is prone to be among the many points that could be addressed within the standing committee report.
Saptagiri Sankar Ulaka, a Congress lawmaker from Odisha, heads the standing committee.
In its December 2025 report titled “Proper to Honest Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 – Implementation and Effectiveness,” the committee thought-about instances, together with land acquisition in Nice Nicobar, Lakshadweep, and honest compensation issues in different tribal areas.
The committee beneficial strict implementation of the Act so that each one individuals whose main livelihood relies on Nice Nicobar’s forests, coasts, creeks, seashores, reef flats, and customary paths are handled as “affected households” beneath its Part 3(c), even the place the land is recorded as authorities or forest land.
Within the case of Lakshadweep, the committee noticed that it has come throughout cases the place proposals proceeded on the declare that as a result of the foreshore reef flat seashore or lagoon edge is authorities land, its taking or enclosure doesn’t quantity to acquisition affecting individuals. The committee disagreed with this view. It recorded that the Act expressly protects the livelihood of dependents on authorities and customary land.
