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The Eastern Economist August 27 1948

1948

The delay which has occured in the enactment of the Estates Duty Act need not be entirely fruitless if the scope of the Bill can be widened in the manner'contemplated by the Expert Committee on the financial clauses of the Constitution. [...] The point is that the section of the Bill under reference will have the effect in its present form of permitting the Provincial Government to carry through by executive action far-reaching land policies which have not had the approval of the Legilature expressly and properly given in the ordinary course of law-making. [...] The need for the clear definition of purposes bcomes all the more necessary in view of the fact that the Provincial Governmer t is to be the sole and final judge of the propriety of any action taken in terms of the sections under reference. [...] If it considers the evil of mismanagement of estates and other lands so extensive and serious as to warrant state intervention in the way contemplated in the Bill it ought to appoint a Committee to determine the real extent of the evil and its significance so that the Legilature may be in a position to assess properly the need for arming the Executive with the extraordinary powers it seeks. [...] Further it should be open to the lanholder to appeal from the decision of the Government and the Tribunal to the appropriate Civil Court which will be competent to enquire into and satisfy itself on the three points that the Government has really aplied its mind ' to the matter that the grounds for its action are clearly stated and the nature and extent of neglect or mismanagement specifi
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Pages
40
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120077
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
347-347 E.P.W. da Costa view
Red Light Over Burma
347-348 E.P.W. da Costa view
Institutes for Economic Research
349-350 E.P.W. da Costa view
The Estates Duty Bill
350-351 E.P.W. da Costa view
The Bombay Tenancy Bill
351-352 E.P.W. da Costa view
The Week’s Notes
353-356 E.P.W. da Costa view
Brief Notes
356-358 E.P.W. da Costa view
Budgetary Policy and Inflation
359-361 E.P.W. da Costa view
The World Abroad
362-363 E.P.W. da Costa view
A Delhi Diary
364-364 E.P.W. da Costa view
Round the Markets
365-367 E.P.W. da Costa view
The Business World
368-371 E.P.W. da Costa view
Letters to the Editor
372-372 E.P.W. da Costa view
From the Provincial Angle
373-374 E.P.W. da Costa view
Gleanings
375-376 E.P.W. da Costa view
Current Statistics
377-382 E.P.W. da Costa view

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