Land in India is problematic largely because of archaic and perverse provisions in the practice and the law. The new Land Acquisition Amendment Bill does go some way to correct the anti-democratic and imperial provisions of the old 1894 Act. Other regulatory restraints stand in the way of fair...

Income originating within geographical boundaries of urban and rural areas of Gujarat is estimated for three benchmark years 1993-94, 1999-00 and 2004-05 - at current prices following the broad methodology and data sources prescribed by the CSO. This is the first such effort made at the state...