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

Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013
Parliament of India
  • 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.
CitationNo. 30 of 2013
Territorial extentWhole of India
Enacted byParliament of India
Enacted29 August 2013 and 5 September 2013(Lok Sabha)
4 September 2013 (Rajya Sabha)
Assented to27 September 2013
Signed27 September 2013
Commenced1 January 2014
Bill citationNo. 77-C of 2011
Committee report17 May 2012
Repeals
Land Acquisition Act, 1894
Status: In force

The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 (also Land Acquisition Act, 2013 or LARR Act[1] or RFCTLARR Act[2]) is an Act of Indian Parliament that regulates land acquisition and lays down the procedure and rules for granting compensation, rehabilitation and resettlement to the affected persons in India. The Act has provisions to provide fair compensation to those whose land is taken away, brings transparency to the process of acquisition of land to set up factories or buildings, infrastructural projects and assures rehabilitation of those affected. The Act replaced the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 enacted during British rule.

The Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2011 was introduced in Lok Sabha on 7 September 2011.[3][4] The bill was then passed by it on 29 August 2013 and by the Rajya Sabha on 4 September 2013. The bill then received the assent of the President of India on 27 September 2013.[5] The Act came into force from 1 January 2014.[6][7]

In December 2014 the Land Acquisition Ordinance 2014 was issued.[8] An amendment bill was then introduced in Parliament. Lok Sabha passed the amendment bill but not the Rajya Sabha.[9] On 30 May 2015, President of India promulgated the amendment as an ordinance for third time.[9] The Supreme Court refused to stay the ordinance following a public interest litigation.[9] The amendment bill was referred to a joint parliamentary committee. The committee was not able to attain a consensus.[2] The amendment bill lapsed.[10]

  1. ^ "The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Amendment) Bill, 2015". PRS Legislative Research. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  2. ^ a b Sonak, Ishani (12 December 2018). "'State govts acquire land by subverting rights and bending the law'". Down to Earth. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
  3. ^ "Cabinet clears land bill despite protests". NDTV. 6 September 2011. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
  4. ^ "Land Acquisition Bill introduced in Lok Sabha". Hindustan Times. 7 September 2011. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  5. ^ "President Pranab Mukherjee gives nod to Land Acquisition Bill". NDTV. PTI. 27 September 2013. Retrieved 10 October 2013.
  6. ^ "Gazette Notification of coming into force of the Act" (PDF). Government of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 January 2014. Retrieved 4 January 2014.
  7. ^ "The New Land Acquisition Act to come into effect from 2014". The Economic Times. 16 October 2013. Retrieved 1 November 2013.
  8. ^ Kohli, Kanchi (February 2015). "Land Acquisition Ordinance 2014: Dismissing democracy, displacing safeguards?". Oxfam India Policy Brief (11) – via Oxfam Open Repository.
  9. ^ a b c "Land Acquisition Ordinance re-promulgated as Amendment Bill lies with Joint Parl Committee". 1, Law Street. 1 June 2015. Archived from the original on 15 December 2016. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
  10. ^ "Farm Laws repeal: Second big climbdown by Modi government since coming to power in 2014". The Financial Express. 19 November 2021. Retrieved 18 January 2022.

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