{"id":98708,"date":"2020-02-05T15:47:25","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T22:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=98708"},"modified":"2020-02-05T15:47:25","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T22:47:25","slug":"call-for-amending-land-development-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/02\/05\/call-for-amending-land-development-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for amending Land Development Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Island<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/island.lk\/modules\/modPublication\/article_title_images\/218223659call.jpg\" alt=\"article_image\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Environmental organizations urge thegovernment to reform the  Land Development Act as it is misused by affluent and powerful politicians to  acquire vast extents of land illegally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sajeewa Chamikara of Movement for Land and Agricultural Reform (MONLAR)  said that the present law should be amended to prevent such rackets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chamikara said: &#8220;The Land Acquisition Act too should be amended.  Under this Act the decisions to acquire land and issue orders to that effect are  vested in the State Ministers and the aggrieved party cannot file a court case  against the Minister. The law should be amended to provide an opportunity for  victimised parties to appeal.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The law should also be reformed to ensure the rights and plights  of the war-displaced people, people displaced as a result of development  projects, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It should cover how usage needs of a land is utilized, the  manner in which it is developed, duration of occupation, commercial value of the  land, cultural and social significance of the land, compensation for those who  lose their properties due to development projects, impact assessment of the new  places of residence and on the infrastructural development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Island Environmental organizations urge thegovernment to reform the Land Development Act as it is misused by affluent and powerful politicians to acquire vast extents of land illegally. Sajeewa Chamikara of Movement for Land and Agricultural Reform (MONLAR) said that the present law should be amended to prevent such rackets. Chamikara said: &#8220;The Land [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}