Model Land Leasing Act
States should frame land-for-land policies in rarest of rare case: SC
The Supreme Court has cautioned states against their "land-for-land" policies and said such schemes should be floated in rarest of the rare cases. A bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and R Mahadevan further said a plea of deprivation of right to livelihood under Article 21 of the Constitution to oppose the land acquisition by the state was unsustainable as it called the litigation pursued by Haryana as an eye opener" for all states. The bench was acting on a batch of pleas filed by the Estate Officer of Haryana Urban Development Authority and others challenging the Punjab and Haryana High Court's 2016 decision that upheld the trial court decrees favoring oustees. We have made ourselves very explicitly clear that in cases of land acquisition the plea of deprivation of right to livelihood under Article 21 of the Constitution is unsustainable, Justice Pardiwala said in a 88-page verdict on July 14. The high court held displaced landowners, whose land was acquired by Haryana authorities
 "States should frame land-for-land policies in rarest of rare case: SC")
Failure to adopt land leasing act is hurting govts in Raj, MP and Telangana
Madhya Pradesh is one of the few states having legalised tenancy or land leases on the lines of the 'model land leasing law'
 "Failure to adopt land leasing act is hurting govts in Raj, MP and Telangana")
Liberalising land leasing necessary for growth, says Tajamul Haque
Uttarakhand with its new law allows the leases to last for a maximum of 30 years
 "Liberalising land leasing necessary for growth, says Tajamul Haque")
Model land lease Act favours tribunals for settlement
The lessee (or cultivator) should not have any expectation of acquiring any occupancy right for continuous possession of the land
