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Download Thesis This electronic thesis or dissertation has been downloaded from the King’s Research Portal at https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/ POLITICAL ECONOMY OF LAND ACQUISITION FOR URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS IN INDIA A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF STATE INTERVENTION IN KARNATAKA AND KERALA Sinha, Meenakshi Awarding institution: King's College London The copyright of this thesis rests with the author and no quotation from it or information derived from it may be published without proper acknowledgement. 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Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact [email protected] providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. Download date: 25. Sep. 2021 POLITICAL ECONOMY OF LAND ACQUISITION FOR URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS IN INDIA: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF STATE INTERVENTION IN KARNATAKA AND KERALA A dissertation presented by Meenakshi Sinha under the supervision of Louise Tillin and Sunil Mitra Kumar to King’s India Institute, King’s College London in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the subject of International Development September, 2017 1 ABSTRACT Using a comparative framework of two contiguous subnational units viz. the Indian states of Karnataka and Kerala, this research project seeks to assess the role of the state in the formulation and implementation of land use policies in urban areas. In the Indian context, the introduction of economic reforms and the subsequent decentralisation measures have led to regional state units competing more intensely amongst themselves for investment. Against this backdrop, the study examines how state-specific strategies and politics shape the nature of land use policies and ultimately their implementation. This analysis includes an examination of the linkages between decision makers and different interest groups as they seek influence in the governmental system. The thesis examines two urban infrastructure projects, namely, Bangalore Mass Rapid Transit System and Kochi Mass Rapid Transit System. The study employs a hybrid conceptual framework of subnational comparison and state spatial rescaling to understand how land acquisition and conversion for the two projects is occurring through newly instituted state organisations, specifically Special Purpose Vehicles. Through macro and micro level explorations of states’ financial, administrative and political strategies, the thesis illustrates that these organisations in interaction with other state level bodies are able to circumvent many local laws and planning procedures to successfully acquire land for the two projects under consideration. The study concludes that due to similar patterns of state spatial rescaling administered across the two sites through the agency of Special Purpose Vehicles, the land acquisition for the two projects remains unaffected by regional differences between Karnataka and Kerala; instead, the two projects exemplify tendencies of convergence in land acquisition. 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT ........................................................................................................................... 2 LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES ....................................................................................... 6 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS .................................................................................................... 7 LIST OF ACRONYMS .......................................................................................................... 9 Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................ 11 1.1 Setting the problem: Research Context and Questions .................................................... 11 1.2 Research Framework and Focus of the Study .................................................................. 15 1.3 Land Acquisition and India’s Changing Policy Environment .......................................... 20 1.4 Chapter Outline .............................................................................................................. 24 Chapter 2 LITERATURE REVIEW ..................................................................................... 27 2.1 Pre-Reform to Post-Reform State: Liberalisation, Privatisation and Refederalisation ...... 28 2.2 Inter-state competition, Urbanisation and Rescaling of Local Government Structures ..... 34 2.3 Land governance as a political process ........................................................................... 39 2.4 Land, Law and Courts ..................................................................................................... 43 2.5 Conclusion ..................................................................................................................... 49 Chapter 3RESEARCH METHODOLOGY ........................................................................... 51 3.1 The Comparative Method and Case Study Design .......................................................... 51 3.2 Subnationalism as a Strategy of Comparison................................................................... 54 3.3 An Overview of Selected Case Studies ........................................................................... 56 3.4 Site of empirical investigation, a synopsis of the selected empirical projects, and rationale for selecting the sub-projects ................................................................................................ 61 3.5 Operationalisation of some of the key terms used in the thesis…………………………...63 3.6 Fieldwork Overview, Research Tools and Methods ........................................................ 64 3.7 Conclusion ..................................................................................................................... 70 Chapter 4 URBAN DEVELOPMENT AS A PROCESS OF LIBERALISATION, BUREAUCRATISATION, AND DEPOLITICISATION ..................................................... 71 4.1 The shaping of competitive liberalisation through planning instruments of large-scale UDPs .......................................................................................................................................................72 4.2 SPVs: As forms of state entrepreneurialism .........................................................................74 4.3 A brief overview of the organisational structures of the BMRC and the KMRL .............. 76 3 4.4 ‘Fast-tracking’ Infrastructure Development: overcoming fiscal barriers, streamlining administrative-legal barriers, and neutralising politics .......................................................... 79 4.4.1 Ensuring Financial Viability ...................................................................................... 79 4.4.1a A note on land-based financing ................................................................................... 83 4.4.2 Corporatisation and Depoliticisation as mechanisms of capacity-building and efficiency ………………………………………………………………………………………………...86 4.5 Conclusion ...................................................................................................................... 90 Chapter 5 AN INVESTIGATION INTO PROCESSES OF REAL-ESTATE CROSS SUBSIDISATION: DEVELOPMENT OR LAND GRAB? ..............................................93 5.1 Urban Land Management: Mapping the Institutional Actors ............................................. 95 5.2 Case Studies ..................................................................................................................... 102 5.2.1 Mantri Square Sampige Metro Station: A question of land encroachment ...................... 102 5.2.2 Kochi Metro Village: Easing land conversion rules for facilitating sub-urban development.. .......................................................................................................................... 107 5.3 Conclusion ..................................................................................................................... 115 Chapter 6 LAND CONFLICTS, SUB NATIONALISM AND THE POLITICS OF PARTICIPATORY DEVELOPMENT .................................................................................. 117 6.1 Introduction: Urban Political Economy of Land Conflicts ............................................... 117 6.2 Case Studies ................................................................................................................... 121 6.2.1 Karnataka: A pro-investment regime and a case of an ‘absent state’ ............................. 122 6.2.1a Slum eviction and rehabilitation in Bangalore: Sympathetic bureaucracy and negotiation through local informal leader .............................................................................
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