Participatory paradigm for linear land acquisition projects
- Author Mohammad Israr Khan
- DOI
- Country : India
- Subject : Applied and Regional Economics
Keywords : Linear Projects, Land Acquisition, Compensatory Failure, Extended Participation, Neighborhood Equity, Gain Absorption Capacity, India
Abstract
Although most of the linear projects like roads and highways have larger infrastructural value and developmental linkages, yet, like almost all other cases of land acquisitions, they are also marred by compensatory deficit, capital base meltdown and spatial inequity. This article attempts at theoretical exposition of an alternate mechanism, heavily drawing upon land-losers’ participation and cooperation. It relies upon post-acquisition utility of remaining land and occurrence of use and exchange value windfalls. It proposes an ‘extended’ scale of acquisition in the first instance, followed by land return in certain proportion to all the participant land-losers, so that no one gets exclusively hurt and no one turns out land-less while the cohort fares together.
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