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Podcast: TRANSFIN. LongShorts with Nikhil Arora and Sharath Toopran
Episode: Policy Winds, Land Rights, And Wrongs
Description: Land Rights constitute one of the most complex and controversial policy issues afflicting Modern India. And Ankit Bhatia, an alumnus from IIT Kharagpur, from the Centre for Policy Research (CPR) has had a front-row seat while trying to deconstruct the problems at hand to make them part of mainstream discourse. Ankit and folks at CPR Land Rights Initiative started their journey over four years ago by analyzing 1,200 plus historical Land Acquisition-related Supreme Court cases to identify the biggest and most urgent structural problems at bay.Â
In a country where 60% of the population directly depend on land for their livelihood, a...