CHAPTER V
REHABILITATION AND RESETTLEMENT AWARD
31. Rehabilitation and Resettlement Award for affected families by Collector 22
32. Provision of infrastructural amenities in resettlement area 23
33. Corrections to awards by Collector 23
34. Adjournment of enquiry 23
35. Power to summon and enforce attendance of witnesses and production of documents 23
36. Power to call for records, etc. 24
37. Awards of Collector when to be final 24
38. Power to take possession of land to be acquired
39. Additional compensation in case of multiple displacements 24
40. Special powers in case of urgency to acquire land in certain cases 25
41. Special provisions for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes 25
42. Reservation and other benefits 26
CHAPTER VI
PROCEDURE AND MANNER OF REHABILITATION AND RESETTLEMENT
43. Appointment of Administrator 27
44. Commissioner for rehabilitation and resettlement 27
45. Rehabilitation and resettlement committee at project level 27
46. Provisions relating to rehabilitation and resettlement to apply in case of certain persons other than specified persons
47. Quantification and deposit of rehabilitation and resettlement amount
CHAPTER VII
NATIONAL MONITORING COMMITTEE FOR REHABILITATION AND RESETTLEMENT
48. Establishment of National monitoring committee for rehabilitation and resettlement 29 49. Reporting requirements
50. Establishment of State Monitoring Committee for rehabilitation and resettlement 30
53.
55.
56.
57.
58.
59.
CHAPTER IX APPORTIONMENT OF COMPENSATION
75. Particulars of apportionment to be specified
76. Dispute as to apportionment
CHAPTER X
77. Payment of compensation or deposit of same in Authority
78. Investment of money deposited in respect of lands belonging to person incompetent to alienate
79. Investment of money deposited in other cases
80. Payment of interest
CHAPTER XI
TEMPORARY OCCUPATION OF LAND
81. Temporary occupation of waste or arable land, procedure when difference as to compensation exists
82. Power to enter and take possession and compensation on restoration
83. Difference as to condition of land
CHAPTER XII OFFENCES AND PENALTIES
84. Punishment for false information, mala fide action, etc.
85. Penalty for contravention of provisions of Act
86. Offences by Companies
87. Offences by Government departments
88. Cognizance of offences by court
89. Offences to be non-cognizable
90. Offences to be cognizable only on complaint filed by certain persons
CHAPTER XIII
91. Magistrate to enforce surrender
92. Service of notice
98.
Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013
[30 OF 2013]1
An Act to ensure, in consultation with institutions of local self-government and Gram Sabhas established under the Constitution, a humane, participative, informed and transparent process for land acquisition for industrialisation, development of essential infrastructural facilities and urbanisation with the least disturbance to the owners of the land and other affected families and provide just and fair compensation to the affected families whose land has been acquired or proposed to be acquired or are affected by such acquisition and make adequate provisions for such affected persons for their rehabilitation and resettlement and for ensuring that the cumulative outcome of compulsory acquisition should be that affected persons become partners in development leading to an improvement in their post acquisition social and economic status and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Sixty-fourth Year of the Republic of India as follows:—
CHAPTER I
PRELIMINARY
Short title, extent and commencement.
1. (1) This Act may be called the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013.
(2)It extends to the whole of India 2[***].
(3)It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification3 in the Official Gazette, appoint:
1.Dated 26-9-2013.
2.Words “except the State of Jammu and Kashmir” omitted by the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019, w.e.f. 31-10-2019.
3.With effect from 1-1-2014, vide Notification No. S.O. 3729(E), dated 19-12-2013.
Provided that the Central Government shall appoint such date within three months from the date on which the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 receives the assent of the President.
Application of Act.
2. (1) The provisions of this Act relating to land acquisition, compensation, rehabilitation and resettlement, shall apply, when the appropriate Government acquires land for its own use, hold and control, including for Public Sector Undertakings and for public purpose, and shall include the following purposes, namely:—
(
a) for strategic purposes relating to naval, military, air force, and armed forces of the Union, including central paramilitary forces or any work vital to national security or defence of India or State police, safety of the people; or
(
b) for infrastructure projects, which includes the following, namely:—
(i) all activities or items listed in the notification of the Government of India in the Department of Economic Affairs (Infrastructure Section) number 13/6/2009-INF, dated the 27th March, 2012, excluding private hospitals; private educational institutions and private hotels;
(ii) projects involving agro-processing, supply of inputs to agriculture, warehousing, cold storage facilities, marketing infrastructure for agriculture and allied activities such as dairy, fisheries, and meat processing, set up or owned by the appropriate Government or by a farmers’ co-operative or by an institution set up under a statute;
(iii) project for industrial corridors or mining activities, national investment and manufacturing zones, as designated in the National Manufacturing Policy;
(iv) project for water harvesting and water conservation structures, sanitation;
(v) project for Government administered, Government aided educational and research schemes or institutions;
(vi) project for sports, health care, tourism, transportation of space programme;
(vii) any infrastructure facility as may be notified in this regard by the Central Government and after tabling of such notification in Parliament;
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c) project for project affected families;
(d) project for housing for such income groups, as may be specified from time to time by the appropriate Government;
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e) project for planned development or the improvement of village sites or any site in the urban areas or provision of land for residential purposes for the weaker sections in rural and urban areas;
(f) project for residential purposes to the poor or landless or to persons residing in areas affected by natural calamities, or to persons displaced or affected by reason of the implementation of any scheme undertaken by the Government, any local authority or a corporation owned or controlled by the State.
(2) The provisions of this Act relating to land acquisition, consent, compensation, rehabilitation and resettlement, shall also apply, when the appropriate Government acquires land for the following purposes, namely:—
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a) for public private partnership projects, where the ownership of the land continues to vest with the government, for public purpose as defined in sub-section (1);
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b) for private companies for public purpose, as defined in sub-section (1):
Provided that in the case of acquisition for—
(i) private companies, the prior consent of at least eighty per cent of those affected families, as defined in sub-clauses (i) and (v) of clause (c) of section 3; and
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ii) public private partnership projects, the prior consent of at least seventy per cent of those affected families, as defined in sub-clauses (i) and (v) of clause (c) of section 3,
shall be obtained through a process as may be prescribed by the appropriate Government:
Provided further that the process of obtaining the consent shall be carried out along with the Social Impact Assessment study referred to in section 4:
Provided also that no land shall be transferred by way of acquisition, in the Scheduled Areas in contravention of any law (including any order or judgment of a court which has become final) relating to land transfer, prevailing in such Scheduled Areas.
(3) The provisions relating to rehabilitation and resettlement under this Act shall apply in the cases where,—
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a) a private company purchases land, equal to or more than such limits in rural areas or urban areas, as may be prescribed by the appropriate Government, through private negotiations with the owner of the land in accordance with the provisions of section 46;
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b) a private company requests the appropriate Government for acquisition of a part of an area so prescribed for a public purpose:
Provided that where a private company requests the appropriate Government for partial acquisition of land for public purpose, then, the rehabilitation and resettlement entitlements under the Second Schedule shall be applicable for the entire area which includes the land purchased by the private company and acquired by the Government for the project as a whole.
Definitions.
3. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—
