Jharkhand govt to decide soon on land parcels lying unused: Minister

The Jharkhand government will soon decide on large chunks of unused land parcels which are in possession of big companies, the assembly was informed on Friday.

The state wants that these resources should be returned to their original owners, state minister Deepak Birua said in the assembly.

"Large chunks of land parcels were lying unused by big companies. The government is serious about the issue and we will soon take a decision in this regard," he replied to a query.

Chief Minister Hemant Soren has already expressed willingness to set up a commission to resolve the issue of unused land.

Earlier, Congress MLA Pradip Yadav raised the issue in the House and said the Centre's Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 provisions that if land, acquired by any company, is not utilised for five years, then it should be returned to the original owner or should go to land bank.

"But here, land parcels acquired from original .