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Keep Backwards in mind for new CNT Act: Marandi
Advocating a new set of regulation to deal with issues coming out related to land in Jharkhand, the Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (JVM) chief Babulal Marandi on Tuesday said that the Chotanagpur Tenancy Act should be revoked completely.
Addressing a Press conference, the first Chief Minister of the State said that amendments suggested in the existing Act were aimed to vested interest and not for holistic solution of the problem
“We have to make plan for the next 100 years depending on the needs of the growing population and requirements of agriculture and industrial requirements. For that the State Government should prepare a master plan and also frame a new Act,” he noted.
“The Act should keep interest of Dalits, backwards and other sections of the society in mind. Unless it is done, people would continue to be cheated,” said Marandi.
He said that the CNT Act, currently in news after a recent High Court verdict imposing ban on sale and purchase of land belonging to scheduled caste and backward classes to the others, was outdated and made as per the requirements of a decade ago. “The new Act would make it null and void. The Government should also bring an ordinance regularising the land deals of past (to mitigate the effects of verdict).
It should be done for the entire State and not confined to Ranchi itself,” he added. The leader made it clear that nature of the land would be defined in Act and demarcated as per the future planning that could not be altered with.
The leader clarified that land being a State subject; the Government should take initiative into the matter and approach the Centre for it. When asked is he in favour of selling tribal land to non-tribals, Marandi said that land should be given depending on the land use defined well in advance in the said Act. He also advocated setting up a land reform commission on the issues involved.
Advocating a new set of regulation to deal with issues coming out related to land in Jharkhand, the Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (JVM) chief Babulal Marandi on Tuesday said that the Chotanagpur Tenancy Act should be revoked completely.
Addressing a Press conference, the first Chief Minister of the State said that amendments suggested in the existing Act were aimed to vested interest and not for holistic solution of the problem
“We have to make plan for the next 100 years depending on the needs of the growing population and requirements of agriculture and industrial requirements. For that the State Government should prepare a master plan and also frame a new Act,” he noted.
“The Act should keep interest of Dalits, backwards and other sections of the society in mind. Unless it is done, people would continue to be cheated,” said Marandi.
He said that the CNT Act, currently in news after a recent High Court verdict imposing ban on sale and purchase of land belonging to scheduled caste and backward classes to the others, was outdated and made as per the requirements of a decade ago. “The new Act would make it null and void. The Government should also bring an ordinance regularising the land deals of past (to mitigate the effects of verdict).
It should be done for the entire State and not confined to Ranchi itself,” he added. The leader made it clear that nature of the land would be defined in Act and demarcated as per the future planning that could not be altered with.
The leader clarified that land being a State subject; the Government should take initiative into the matter and approach the Centre for it. When asked is he in favour of selling tribal land to non-tribals, Marandi said that land should be given depending on the land use defined well in advance in the said Act. He also advocated setting up a land reform commission on the issues involved.
