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2013.
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India's legal regime governing the compulsory acquisition of private land by the state for "public purposes" - centered on the Land Acquisition Act 1894 (LAA) - has long been criticized for breeding corruption and insufficiently protecting landowners and local communities. Attempts to overhaul the LAA have faced stiff resistance from powerful interests within and outside the state. When the United Progressive Alliance government took power in 2004, few would have guessed that it would seek to replace the LAA with legislation that imposes more rigorous standards for the compulsory acquisition of land and detailed rules for rehabilitating displaced people. Yet, in 2011 the government introduced the Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill (LARRB). This article argues (1) that the LARRB displays certain distinctive characteristics shared by other rights-related statutes enacted under the UPA government; (2) that the emergence of this distinctive - and unforeseen - piece of legislation was driven largely by India's approach to creating Special Economic Zones; and (3) that both the LARRB's content and the process by which it was introduced have implications for debates of wider theoretical significance, including the increasingly hybrid nature of rights, and the desirability of combining insights from the literatures on "policy feedback" and "policy entrepreneurs."
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133898
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2014.
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An assessment of the foreign policy balance-sheet of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) administration reveals its ineptitude in resolving the issue of water-sharing of the Teesta River with Bangladesh, the legacy of which has been inherited by its successor, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Government, under the leadership of Narendra Modi, who adorned the Prime Minister's Chair on 26 May 2014. The legacy of this contentious bilateral issue can be traced back to the Second Phase of the UPA administration (UPA-II) in 2011, when the Chief Minister of the Indian state of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee refused to budge on her decision of not sharing the Teesta river water with Bangladesh.
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