Articles by Tapas Roy

Serious concerns have been raised from time to time about the effi cacy of the engineering education in India in providing the skills to be employable. A study on summative questions asked in an engineering exam, of a state university, revealed that the questions lingered in the fi rst three levels of lower order thinking skill. This article attempts to identify the weaknesses of the existing curriculum in the areas of pedagogy and assessment which are pertinent to improve the employability in the context of the New Education Policy, 2020.

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Amendment to the LARR Act, 2013 and the Aspirations of the Rural Youth of India

Vol. 53, Issue No. 32, 11 Aug, 2018

Tapas Roy, R Jayaraj, Anil Kumar

India replaced its century-old Land Acquisition Act, 1894 with the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013. A recent attempt by the government to amend this act to exempt certain sectors from social impact assessment studies and taking consent of landowners before acquiring land is based on the assumption that the landowners in general are opposed to compulsory purchases. This assumption is questionable as landowners of peri-urban locations are generally willing to give land for development projects and the younger generation is unwilling to continue with farming as a livelihood.

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Political Challenge of an Intensifying Conflict over Land

Vol. 47, Issue No. 07, 18 Feb, 2012

Jayanta Bandyopadhyay, Tapas Roy

How much of the benefits of economic growth accrue directly to farmers and workers who lose their livelihoods when agricultural land is taken over for development? If handled properly, the Land Acquisition and Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill 2011 offers an opportunity for equitably addressing the interests of diverse sections affected by the land acquisition process.

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