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After lobbying the Madhya Pradesh Government to shelve its ambitious Simhastha project — which is aimed astatine permanently acquiring thousands of hectares of farmers’ onshore to physique infrastructure for the Kumbh Mela — the Bharatiya Kisan Sangh (BKS) has present urged the Union Government to prohibition onshore pooling crossed the state and bring uniformity to onshore acquisition laws.
The RSS-affiliated organisation connected Monday (December 1, 2025) said that it is acrophobic astir the deficiency of attraction to the interests of villages and farmers affected by the acquisition of cultivation onshore crossed the state successful the sanction of development.
In a 15-point memorandum of suggestions to beryllium fixed to the Central Government, the BKS mentioned astir a merchandise issued by the Indian Agro-Economic Research Center, which stated that the British onshore acquisition instrumentality of 1894 continued for galore decades and adjacent erstwhile the caller onshore acquisition instrumentality came into effect successful 2013, the aforesaid was weakened by arbitrary amendments by the State Governments.
The BKS besides cited findings of the Indian Agro-Economic Research Centre that pointed to ‘no oregon meagre compensation’ to farmers adjacent aft the authorities took possession of their land, arsenic good arsenic mediocre readying for their employment and rehabilitation.
The BKS alleged that laws similar the ‘Land Pooling Act’ were enacted to deceive guiltless farmers into obtaining consent based connected mendacious promises, giving officials escaped rein to terrorize them.
“There is nary effort oregon proviso to halt this atrocity. There is nary work to travel the rules, and determination is nary control,” it said.
Suggesting measures for the authorities successful farmers’ interest, BKS said that the authorities should instrumentality the consent of 80% of the residents successful the Gram Sabha erstwhile it makes laws oregon amendments. It added that compensation connected onshore acquisition should beryllium 4 times the existent marketplace worth oregon the registered value, and that the rehabilitation program should beryllium afloat implemented earlier possession of the onshore is taken.
It further said that wherever displacement of tribal radical is necessary, each villagers should beryllium rehabilitated successful 1 spot arsenic a caller implicit village, truthful that their culture, society, and societal situation tin beryllium preserved. Also, the acquisition of multi-crop irrigated onshore should beryllium prohibited unless it is for an indispensable nationalist purpose. And that the farmers should beryllium made shareholders and fixed a involvement successful the project.
“Amendments made by assorted States person eliminated cardinal provisions. Therefore, the Central Government, with the consent of State Governments and, if necessary, done Constitutional Amendments, should bring uniformity to the instrumentality crossed the country. The Act should supply for strict punitive enactment wrong a minimum clip framework (one year) against officials and employees who mislead farmers oregon misuse the rules portion acquiring land,” BKS said.
