Legislating for justice : making of the 2013 land acquisition law
Jairam Ramesh and Muhammad Ali Khan
- India Oxford Univesity Press 2015
- 254 p.
This volume attempts to explain the rationale behind each and every provision of India's The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act 2013, presented by the then Minister for Rural Development and his Principle Aide. The book is a first-hand account of the challenges faced and the factors that drove the decisions in regulating the State's approach to a resource that is arguably the most important in a land-deficit people-surplus nation.