00711pab a2200145 454500008004000000100001900040245005900059260000900118300001500127362001100142520033200153650002700485650001900512773003400531180718b1999   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aAsif, Mohammed  aLand Acquisition Act: need for an alternative paradigm  c1999  ap.1564-566  a19 Jun  aLand acquisition legislation in force today is a relic of the colonial era when the wishes of landowners could be ignored. Governments of independent India continued the practice - acquiring land against the owners' wishes for supposedly `public purposes'. The time has come to democratise the acquisition process. - Reproduced  aLand economics - India  aLand economics  aEconomic and Political Weekly