Urban Land Ceiling Act - A Repeal (Shahari Bhoomi Niyantran Adhiniyam - Nirasth) (1999)
Director: V. Packirisamy; Writer: R. Krishnamohan; Producer: Yazdi N. Engineer; Cinematographer: S.G. Mane, Radhey Shyam; Editor: Ramesh Khanvilkar, Haren Walvi
Duration: 00:12:40; Aspect Ratio: 1.333:1; Hue: 27.967; Saturation: 0.031; Lightness: 0.344; Volume: 0.166; Cuts per Minute: 10.341; Words per Minute: 107.517
Summary: This film analysis the Housing problem in India and also portrays the benefits of the repeal of Urban Land Ceiling Act.
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Niranjan Hiranandani
In 1998 the National Democratic Alliance government headed by BJP took a decision to repeal the Urban Land Ceiling Act. It was argued that ceiling on land holdings had created an artificial scarcity of land which in turn made housing out of reach of the common people. It was finally in March 1999 when a law was passed repealing the land ceiling act that had been brought in by Indira Gandhi in the year 1976 with the aim to socialise land. So rather than implementing the law that would have made land available for social housing, it was repealed and a false impression created that it was the Land Ceiling Act that had created land scarcity in cities.
ULCRA
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In 1998 the National Democratic Alliance government headed by BJP took a decision to repeal the Urban Land Ceiling Act. It was argued that ceiling on land holdings had created an artificial scarcity of land which in turn made housing out of reach of the common people. It was finally in March 1999 when a law was passed repealing the land ceiling act that had been brought in by Indira Gandhi in the year 1976 with the aim to socialise land.
In 1998 the National Democratic Alliance government headed by BJP took a decision to repeal the Urban Land Ceiling Act. It was argued that ceiling on land holdings had created an artificial scarcity of land which in turn made housing out of reach of the common people. It was finally in March 1999 when a law was passed repealing the land ceiling act that had been brought in by Indira Gandhi in the year 1976 with the aim to socialise land.
Ram Jethmalani, the Minister for Urban Development infamously said that ULCRA was a useless law and should have been repealed a long time ago.
False Promises
ULCRA
Niranjan Hiranandani, a city based developer argues of 'liberalisation of housing' which in turn meant liberalising land, making it available for the market devoid of any social obligations, but it will provide "shelter for all!"
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