: The TRS has threatened to oppose the land acquisition Bill in Parliament if the social impact assessment and consent clauses in the original legislation were removed.
Speaking in the Lok Sabha when the Bill was debated on Monday, the TRS deputy leader B. Vinod Kumar demanded that the social impact assessment of land oustees should continue and the consent of affected families taken into consideration during acquisition. The Telangana government had already formed the social impact assessment unit in the State. It wanted to build a database for qualified social impact assessment (SIA) resource partners and practitioners, providing training for SIA teams and community surveyors. The government also wanted to ensure transaction and web-based workflow for SIA. All the district collectors were asked to prepare an inventory of waste, barren and unutilised lands, Mr. Vinod Kumar added.
