* * *Dear All*
*We invite you a public talk on the Land acquisition and Rehabilitation Bill and Land Titling Bill 2011, by Independent legal researcher from Delhi Usha Ramanathan, on September 3rd, Saturday.* *Venue- Shramik Hall, ** Royal Crest, Lokmanya Tilak Vasahat Road, DADAR EAST* *Time- 6.00pm* * Usha will also share her views and concerns on lokpal bill and the UID/ aadhar.* *The Draft Land Acquisition and Rehabilitation Bill 2011, has *been drafted as if it is intended to mediate the transfer of land from one set of persons to another set of persons.The Land Acquisition Act 1894 (LAA) has become as contentious as it has because, over time, the eminent domain power of the state as reflected in the LAA has been translated to mean a coercive power with the state to effect the transfer of land. This draft Bill, again, treats land acquisition as a rule, and doesn’t recognise coercive acquisition as an exception. It completely misses the point that conflicts all over the country have erupted because the government has been treating the LAA as a means of taking over land and handing it over as it pleases it to do. Continuing to treat land as a commodity which this helps transact will be missing the point about why conflicts abound, which conflicts the draft Bill is expected to abate. *The Draft Land Titling Bill 2011 *is connected law. That Bill is an attempt at commoditisation of land, and makes it visible and definitive as a commodity to be traded in the market. The long title says that the law is to create a `conclusive property titling system’. It is to `prepare a record of all immovable properties’. It shifts the onus from the state to the individual to keep the records updated on pain of punishment, and even loss of acknowledgment of title to the land or interest in the land. In clause 36(3), for instance, ` all persons are deemed to have notice of every entry in the Register of Titles’. And, in clause 41, `any title recorded in the Register of Titles in accordance with the provisions of the Act, shall be considered as evidence of the marketable title of the landholder’. This is to prepare a record of all immovable properties on the basis of which land will be dealt with in the market. The idea of introducing an `indemnification’ clause, where the government indemnifies a person who acts on the basis of the title as it is recorded in the Land Registry is a case of the government taking over the role of an insurance company. That is what insurance companies used to do, and still do: they indemnify land titles and bear the cost of litigation and ancillary matters if they were to arise. The Draft Land Titling Bill is not about updating land records. It is not about the accuracy of land records, but about its finality for purposes of determining encumbrances and saleability. It is about deciding on a means by which land may be easily dealt with in the market. PL SHARE WIDELY WITH YOUR FRIENDS/ NETWORKS IN MUMBAI For more information pl contact comrade Vasu- 9821536676/ Vivek-9821062801 -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist * * *The UID project i**s going to do almost exactly the same thing which the predecessors of Hitler did, else how is it that Germany always had the lists of Jewish names even prior to the arrival of the Nazis? The Nazis got these lists with the help of IBM which was in the 'census' business that included racial census that entailed not only count the Jews but also identifying them. At the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, there is an exhibit of an IBM Hollerith D-11 card sorting machine that was responsible for organising the census of 1933 that first identified the Jews.* * * *http://saynotoaadhaar.blogspot.com/* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/* *http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902&ap=1*< http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162987527061902&ap=1> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "humanrights movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
