Creation of a Lakshadweep Development Authority (LDA)

Creation of a Lakshadweep Development Authority (LDA)

Part of: GS Prelims and GS -II – Polity and Governance 

In news

• People of Lakshadweep are Discontent over the creation of a Lakshadweep Development Authority (LDA) by the new administrator Praful Khoda Patel.

Key takeaways

• Mr Patel is the first political appointee as Administrator, a post mostly held by retired civil servants.
• Islanders have pointed out that the legislation is out of sync with the social and environmental realities of the archipelago.
• The creation of the Lakshadweep Development Authority (LDA) with extensive powers includes eviction of land owners. 
• It is widely seen as being pushed by the real estate lobby and against the interest of the islanders.
• Hundreds of islanders have written to the administrator demanding the withdrawal of the proposed Regulation. 
• It includes provisions such as:

1. 1. orderly and progressive development of land in both urban and rural areas and to preserve and improve the amenities thereof;
   2. grant of permission to develop land and for other powers of control over the use of land;
   3. conferring additional powers in respect of the acquisition and development of land for planning.

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