Noble intentions ignoble outcomes

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"The road to hell is paved with good intentions," so goes an old saying. unfortunately, we are travelling on that road, oblivious to where it leads. We have put in place vast number of policies with noble intentions, that produce exactly the opposite results. The latest example of this is the Right to Fair Compensation and Tranparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013. The primary objective of the Act is to protect farmers from predation by the government and businesses in the course of land acquisition. But it pushes the protections against acquisitions so far that anyone wishing to acquire land will first look for land on Mars.