An Online Market for Easements?
AN ONLINE MARKET FOR EASEMENTS? Ganga Prasad G. Rao http://myprofile.cos.com/gangar At the rate land is gobbled up by the rich, commercial establishments and real estate companies, (and looking at the exponent on the price projection) you might be excused for putting up your neighbor's land for sale and running away with the proceeds to Tonga! But seriously, in a land of a billion people, land is increasingly scarce. After all, we need land for roads, parking spaces, parks, cinema 'complexes', stadiums, malls, offices, palatial bungalows, cottages, hotels, entertainment parks – the list is endless. Look what suburban sprawl did to the US. If we followed them, there would be no rural hinterland to talk about. Even as things stand, our forest cover and our bio-diversity is being raped by an economy that only cares for GDP growth and profits at the bourses. If things continue at this pace, India will be one vast stretch of concrete interspersed with asphalt from Kargil to Kany...