The Land Acquisition Bill 2014 will help build India's roads, bridges, factories. In May 2014 we voted for development. Now we must fight to make that happen !

1. Land Acquisition Bill 2014
•From Singur to Niyamgiri
•India on the back foot

2. My house is prime
property!
•Can you please stop the
Peddar Road flyover ?

3. Oh ! we cannot demolish
houses of Delhi's elite
•Can we have single lane
flyovers in this city ?
•Even if it causes traffic snarls

4. And then there is this argument....
My farmland is not
negotiable
•Damn your
national project !

5. Right ! Mr Kejiriwal, Anna Hazare, Medha
Patkar, Lalu, Mulayam, Sharad Yadav,
Nitish Kumar, Mamta Banerjee,........
..... and Mrs Sonia Gandhi

6. In Dec 2012 UPA chief Sonia
Gandhi scrapped the Land Bill
proposal approved by a cabinet
committee of the UPA
Government

7. A new Land Acquisition act
requiring
80% consent for
private projects and
70% for government projects
was put into place in 2013

8. At the behest of the NAC chaired
by Sonia Gandhi the social
impact assessment clause was
added.

9. The law would give enormous
power to NGO's like the NAC
and the politicians of UPA

10. It would allow them to stop
industrialization of India, that the
NAC and its supporters wanted.

11. The UPA law drew inspiration from :
•The stalled manufacture of
Tata Nano car project at
Singur West Bengal

12. Fomenting agitation against
land acquisition
•Mamta's Trinamool congress
ended the 30 year old CPM rule
in West Bengal

13. It also drew inspiration from the stalled
Vedanta aluminium project at Kalahandi
Orissa, India's poorest district
•when the UPA stopped bauxite
mining at neighboring Niyamgiri

14. The UPA knew that fomenting
tribal dissent would give them
and the NGO's unlimited power
over India's untapped mineral
wealth of bauxite resources.

15. The stalled 5-million-tonne
greenfield Lanjigarh aluminium
refinery plant and the Jharsuguda
aluminum smelter would provide
5000 jobs for the states
•However such large projects would
bring down aluminium prices
globally

16. …And it is here that the interests
of the UPA aligned with Canadian
NGO's and mining giants

17. • Keeping Vedanta, Posco and Arcelor Mittal away
from India’s mines is a
• global -strategy
• pursued by both multinational mining companies as
well as NGOs working for tribal and ecosystem status
quo in third world nations
For the UPA was not the only party that wantedFor the UPA was not the only party that wanted
to control the growth of bauxite mining.to control the growth of bauxite mining.
....it had international support....it had international support

18. The policy to keepThe policy to keep
developing nations off miningdeveloping nations off mining
was first outlinedwas first outlined
by the Canadian PMby the Canadian PM
Stephen Harper in 2007Stephen Harper in 2007

19. Thereafter Canadian International
Development Agency CIDA and
mining giants like Rio Tinto Alcan
financed NGO's in India and other
emerging countries to help stop
bauxite mining

20. Canadian NGO's like
World Vision, Plan Canada and
WUSC financed and fomented
the initial agitations against
mining in third world countries.

22. In India it started with the Niyamgiri hill range
that is spread over 250 sq km and contains
bauxite reserves of about seventy million tons
and is home to 1,453 members of the Dongria
tribe
Bauxite mining was stopped inBauxite mining was stopped in
Niyamgiri because the tribalsNiyamgiri because the tribals
worshipped ‘the entire hill’ !!!worshipped ‘the entire hill’ !!!

23. As per the constitution of India
natural resources is national
property to be used for national
good.

24. If I find Gold or Silver under my
ancestral house, it’s not mine,
but a national property.
Right ?
• So how is bauxite from Niyamgiri,
• the property of the Gods of
• the Dongria tribe of 1453 people ?

25. Why must we have consent clause
for mining in tribal areas ?
why do national projects like roads,why do national projects like roads,
bridges,bridges,
infra structure or projects whereinfra structure or projects where
large employment avenues are createdlarge employment avenues are created
need consent of individuals …or theneed consent of individuals …or the
gods?gods?

26. How are the rights of 1453 tribals
of Niyamgiri greater than the rights
of 1.3 billion Indians ?

27. Maintaining Status Quo means no
development for tribals and farmers
and 1.3 billion Indians

28. It means sustenance through
dole based economic measures
like MGNREGA
• It means dependence on a
• MAI BAAP SARKAR, on Kissan Leaders and
on NGO's who would fetch the poor grant
based sustenance

29. But we want jobs
not doles
•This is why we voted against UPA
overwhelmingly in May 2014
•

30. The UPA and the opposition however
holds the cards in the Rajya Sabha
•The NGO's still control crowds
from Ralegaon Siddhi to Jantar
Mantar

31. However we the voters of
India are many more in
number.
•if we choose not to keep quite !

32. We voters must make
development actually
happen?
•We must have jobs !

33. Drop consent clause in land bill
Your consent as landowners is not
more vital than our jobs !
•Let national projects acquire land
without consent clause !

34. Change the Land Law !
• we don't want dole based governance.
• http://blogs.economictimes.indiatimes.com/Whathapp
ensif/my-land-is-more-vital-than-your-national-project-
from-singur-to-niyamgiri/

35. Let India have roads,
let India have bridges,
let India have factories,
•Let India have jobs !

36. The above presentation draws data
from the book
Neta, Babu & Subsidy :
Roundup 2000 to 2014
• http://www.infibeam.com/Books/neta-babu-subsidy-sandip-
sen/9789382711377.html
• and on Kindle
• http://www.amazon.co.uk/Neta-Babu-Subsidy-roundup-2000-201