Compensation for farmers's lands

In the national capital region(Delhi), land of farmers were acquired by government.By Land Acquisition bill, lands of farmers were acquired by government for ‘industrial development’ but it was sold to builders who had built multi-storey apartments there and had sold them also.Farmers were not happy because big profits were made from their land; and went to court to demand compensation. This had happened on October 21, 2011.And 491 petitions against the land acquisition were filed by the affected farmers from 63 villages. Farmers’ plea was dismissed by court yesterday. Already construction has taken place here and land cannot be restored to agriculture now. In earlier ruling the court had granted a 10% increase in the payment for the land to the farmers on whose land plots have been developed. And since the ‘Grameen Panchayat Morcha’ had asked for more compensation as it is their ‘ancestral land’. They were given an additional compensation of 64%.But there is lot of land is classified as non-ancestral or ‘bought’ for which big compensation will not be given. High court had ruled like this because the builders could not give such high compensation. It is arbitrary, which is ancestral and which is not. Many farmers have only their family name which is inherited and cannot prove that it is their ancestral land. And those farmers who had bought the land should be compensated as well, as it was proved that it is their own land. They must have bought it after selling their ancestral land elsewhere. Such distinguishing categories are arbitrary and irrelevant. All should get compensation or none should get.Law should apply to all.Farmers had demanded that their land should be returned to them and that was done in three villages; as building  and construction work had not begun there .