The National Democratic Alliance government is planning to exempt public-private partnership (PPP) projects from the need to obtain consent of affected families and the mandatory social-impact assessment, through amendments to the land acquisition law....In the Bill put up by the previous government and passed by Parliament, PPP projects need consent of 70 per cent of affected families and have to study the social implications in the neighbourhood....Most states...sought scrapping of the social-impact study, claiming it would delay land acquisition by two years...The department of law and justice has endorsed the changes and has said the Centre has the powers to bring these in through an ordinance. A final decision is awaited.