Is the land that you live on, owned by the state or by the individual? What rights does the state have on an individual’s property? These are a few questions that keep coming up, in situations when land needs to be taken up, either for infrastructure development or for other commercial purposes.
Here, in the following sutra, Vasista provides the ground rules for land acquisition. According to him, if a piece of land traverses the path of a road, then that part which the road requires, needs to be given up.
He also addresses the need for allowing sufficient space between the house and the street. Not to forget, the space necessary to steer a cart.
The sutra is as follows:
Land must be surrendered for the road in a field through which a road runs, as also space for turning a cart
Between newly built houses and highways one should allow a passage three feet wide.
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