This is much harder than it needs to be. But I also don't think agricultural land should be rezoned willy-nilly. Much of India's population (~60%) rely on agric

This is much harder than it needs to be. But I also don't think agricultural land should be rezoned willy-nilly. Much of India's population (~60%) rely on agriculture. It should be with great thought that private parties should be able to convert the land (not just because it reduces land able to grow food and agriproducts), but also because it can be a way to dispossess the poor. For an example, see the plight of those whose land was taken to found a new capital city in the state of Andhra Pradesh. The landowners were more or less given a good price for their land. However, those who rely on the land - farm laborers and their dependents - haven't seen an improvement in their situation. They've essentially been turned into migrant workers; they were able to work on local land before. This is essentially what the English gentry did during the enclosures. The resulting "reserve army of labor" helped seed the English Industrial Revolution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure