Handling of Land Transfer Act
SHILLONG: The UDP is dismayed at the State Government’s handling of the Land Transfer Act. The opposition party feels that the government, by merely passing an executive order, which was recently quashed by the High Court, has taken very lightly the provisions of the Act.
“This lackadaisical attitude of the government is posing a grave threat to the land rights of the indigenous people and amounts to subversion of the original Act and the key purpose for which it was enacted,” UDP general secretary Allantry F Dkhar said in a statement issued here on Wednesday.
Dkhar also said that the government should immediately amend the Land Transfer Act to protect tribal land from becoming company property in the guise of industrialization.
“Companies that are already operational should adhere to corporate social responsibility norms. The government also needs to put its act together immediately to reclaim the confidence that was mandated,” he said.
