Relaxation in land transfer policy by PM – The way to large-scale corruption and land grabbing

The pressure from the US President Obama and MNCs are having its effect on the UPA II government. The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, has cleared relaxation for the transfer of government lands for Public – Private – Partnership (PPP) projects  in the infrastructure sector. This may naturally be extended to other sectors also. The earlier orders for getting the cabinet approval before such transfers have been now been removed.

What does this mean? Now the power for transfer is given to the concerned ministries and departments.  Even with the cabinet approval many cases of misuse and corruption has come to the fore. Now with the relaxation of the cabinet approval, it is going to be more misuse and corruption. In the name of PPP, large-scale government land transfers are going to take place to the private corporates to maximise their profits and loot against the interest of the nation.

It is evident that more such pro-private decisions are going to take place in an effort to implement the neo-liberal policies aggressively.