Committee on Land Bill gets yet another extension

The Joint Committee on the contentious Land Bill today got a fresh extension till the end of the Monsoon session next year, to table its report in parliament.
Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan informed the House that she has extended the term of the panel till the last day of the Monsoon session, 2018, as the report could not be finalised till the extended timeline, which ended on December 15.
Also, the motion seeking its extension could not be moved on December 15 as the proceedings were adjourned after paying obituary to some sitting and former members.
"Hence, I have on behalf of the House, granted extension...," the Speaker said.

Some parties have been demanding that the committee be scrapped because it had served no purpose till now, and that the BJP government at the Centre had itself lost interest in the 'Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Amendment) Bill, 2015'.
BJP Lok Sabha member Ganesh Singh was appointed chairperson of the committee in July last year after his predecessor S S Ahluwalia was made a minister.