Farmers mull stir over move to enforce Land Consolidation Act
The New Indian Express|November 07, 2024
PEEVED at the state government's step to enforce the Tamil Nadu Land Consolidation (for Special Projects) Act, 2023 which facilitates allotment of large chunks of land for special projects, farmers' unions and activists are mulling statewide agitations to prevent implementation of this law.
T MURUGANANDHAM

The Act seeks to streamline the process of consolidating government lands for large projects and regulate the process for the exchange of lands involving waterbodies, and the protection of such water bodies. Though the Act has certain clauses to protect the waterbodies in large land parcels acquired for special projects, the farmers are sceptical about these provisions.

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