Simpler laws needed to avert conflict over India's scarce land

By Rina Chandran MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Conflicts over land in India will only increase as its economy grows quickly, and the most effective way to prevent them is to ensure land laws are simpler and more transparent, a leading campaigner said. India has introduced several land laws in the past decade aimed at giving more rights to farmers and indigenous people. "We need fewer laws, and we need them to be clear and predictable," Rangaraju, co-founder of India Property Rights Allia