After going ahead with FDI in multi-brand retail and having withstood the opposition of Mamata Baner-jee’s Trinamul Congress, the government will take up the contentious Land Bill for at the Union Cabin-et’s meeting on Thursday.
The last time this bill was taken up, several ministers opposed provisions seen as “unfriendly” to industry, after which Prime Minister Manmohan Singh set up a GoM under Mr Sharad Pawar to review it.
Sources said the draft Cabinet note has kept the requirement for mandatory consent by 80 per cent of affected stakeholders in all cases of land acquisition. The GoM had agreed on 67 per cent consent, but rural development minister Jairam Ramesh went back to the political commitment on 80 per cent.