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Bengal govt eyes land pooling, industrial parks to attract investors

Bengal govt eyes land pooling, industrial parks to attract investors
Bengal govt eyes land pooling, new industrial parks to draw investors - Telegraph India · telegraphindia.com

Some people in the Bengal government are thinking of new ways to get land for factories and companies.

Buying land directly from many farmers and families can be very difficult and can make people upset.

So the government is looking at something called land pooling.

In land pooling, many people who own small pieces of land put their land together.

After the land is developed, they get back a share of the developed land or other rewards.

The government also wants to build more industrial parks, where companies can get ready-made plots and shared infrastructure.

A big example of land pooling happened in Andhra Pradesh, where thousands of farmers gave their land for a new city called Amaravati.

The state is also thinking about changing some land laws so big companies can hold the land they need.

The government wants to bring new industries to the state without causing the kind of land fights that happened before in Singur and Nandigram.

Key facts

Government
BJP government in Bengal
Chief Minister
Suvendu Adhikari
Adviser
Subrata Gupta, former IAS officer
Land pooling example
Andhra Pradesh: about 33,000 acres pooled from about 29,000 farmers for Amaravati
States with similar schemes
Gujarat, Maharashtra, Punjab, Kerala
Urban land ceiling view
Repeal of the Urban Land (Ceiling and Regulation) Act would not be a 'silver bullet'; industries do not fall under the urban land ceiling
Policy brief
Indian Institute for Human Settlements describes land pooling as an alternative to conventional land acquisition
Reported by
PTI

Quotes

Subrata Gupta

Adviser to West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari

“"Land pooling is one of the options that the state is evaluating for land aggregation, apart from giving greater impetus to industrial parks"”
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“"Industries do not fall under the urban land ceiling. What we need is reform of land laws which are stringent on holding and utilisation"”
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