Act Number: 30

Act Name: The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013

Year: 2013

Enactment Date: 2013-09-26

Long Title: 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.

Ministry: Ministry of Rural Development

Department: Department of Land Resources

Section 45: Rehabilitation and resettlement committee at project level.
    (1) Where land proposed to be acquired is equal to or more than one hundred acres, the appropriate Government shall constitute a Committee under the chairmanship of the Collector to be called the Rehabilitation and Resettlement Committee, to monitor and review the progress of implementation of the Rehabilitation and Resettlement scheme and to carry out post-implementation social audits in consultation with the Gram Sabha in rural areas and municipality in urban areas.
     (2) The Rehabilitation and Resettlement Committee shall include, apart from officers of the appropriate Government, the following members, namely:--
         (a) a representative of women residing in the affected area;
         (b) a representative each of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes residing in the affected area;
         (c) a representative of a voluntary organisation working in the area;
         (d) a representative of a nationalised bank;
         (e) the Land Acquisition Officer of the project;
         (f) the Chairpersons of the panchayats or municipalities located in the affected area or their nominees;
         (g) the Chairperson of the District Planning Committee or his nominee;
         (h) the Member of Parliament and Member of the Legislative Assembly of the concerned area or their nominees;
         (i) a representative of the Requiring Body; and
         (j) Administrator for Rehabilitation and Resettlement as the Member-Convenor.
     (3) The procedure regulating the discharge of the process given in this section and other matters connected thereto of the Rehabilitation and Resettlement Committee shall be such as may be prescribed by the appropriate Government.
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