Lapse of Social Impact Assessment under specified circumstances

Lapse of Social Impact Assessment under specified circumstances.—

1. (1) Where a Social Impact Assessment study is required to be conducted under section 4, the appropriate Government shall ensure that the Social Impact Assessment study report is prepared and made available in the local language to the Panchayat, Municipality or Municipal Corporation, as the case may be, and the offices of the District Collector, the Sub-Divisional Magistrate and the Tehsil, and shall be published in the affected areas, in such manner as may be prescribed, and as per the time-lines specified in the Second Schedule.
2. (2) In case the land acquisition process is not initiated despite the provisions of section 4, the appropriate Government shall ensure that the Social Impact Assessment study is updated in such manner as may be prescribed.