NEW DELHI: Clearing bottlenecks in transfer of government land, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday approved relaxations in the land transfer policy, which would also remove any delays in awarding concessions for infrastructure projects.
The decision to relax the ban imposed on all transfer of government owned land for certain categories would speed up the award of PPP projects from this month onwards significantly, a PMO statement said.
Early last year, a ban had been imposed on all transfer of government owned land to any entity except in cases where land was to be transferred from one government department to another.
With Thursday’s decision, all cases of land transfer from ministries to statutory authorities or PSUs will be allowed as also development and use of railway land by the Rail Land Development Authority (RLDA). (PTI)