I completed my Ph.D research at Vidyasagar University on governmental land acquisition for industries more than a decade ago.I chose the problem quite accidentally.
My graduate students took me to the field and then I got thoroughly immersed in the problem.I could not imagine that the problem chosen by me would become so much important locally and globally within a few years.Many important researches have been done on the problem during these years.Huge amount of information and quite a good theoretical insights have developed. But more and more bad policies are being adopted by the governments all over the world! Have we progressed towards better and humane planning for the future?
- I believe, our progress in this regard in minimum.Still there is no international concern or protocol on preventing the adverse effects of land grab on large section of humanity.The poor are getting more poor.
- On the other hand,our progress towards our journeys in the space is spectacular but the distance between the displaced and the governments and corporates has increased.
Hence, the question:'Is there any value in doing scientific research on land grab?'
Thesis Land Acquisition. Among the cultivators of Rural Medinipur: ...
My dear friend, sorry to read your experience. I think that there is no value in doing scientific research on land grab!
Dear @Abhijit, here are some remarks about my country from the US : "...During the country’s socialist years, owners of nationalized land became “users” of the land and
acquired “rights of use” that, until 2003, could not be freely sold or transferred. A September 2009 Law on Planning and Construction authorized the transformation of land-use rights into rights of freehold private ownership for construction land. The law intended to allow companies that had gained land pursuant to privatization, bankruptcy, or other means to transform usage rights into ownership rights. They could do so by paying a fee representing the difference between the current market value of construction land and the cost of acquiring the land rights. Because the law did not adequately define the procedures for property right conversions, the National Assembly has amended it five times since. Investors continue to complain that land-rights conversions are stalled. Local authorities often lack expertise in valuing land and other technical aspects of conversion, land registries avoid positive resolution of conversion requests, and public attorneys’ offices commonly challenge land-registry actions that do recognize conversion applications. Construction permitting represents a particularly serious problem, as non-transparency and burdensome red tape put Serbia at 182 of 189 countries in World Bank’s Doing Business Report. In the absence of the new construction law, these combined issues continue to impede construction activity in Serbia."
http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/229189.pdf
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