The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Jharkhand Amendment) Act, 2017

(1) This Act may be called the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Jharkhand Amendment) ACT, 2017. (2) The Act shall be deemed to have come into effect on 1st January, 2014 (3) The provisions of this Amendment Act shall have effect notwithstanding anything contained in any Law or Judgement or Order of any Court or authority.

In the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 (hereinafter referred to as the Principal Act), in section 2, in sub-section (2), after the second proviso, the following proviso shall be added, namely :-

“Provided also that the acquisition of land for the projects listed in Section 10A and the purposes specified therein shall be exempted from the provisions of the first proviso to this sub-section.”

In the principal Act, after Chapter-III, the following new chapter-IIIA shall be inserted:-

The State Government may, in the public interest by notification in the official gazette, exempt any of the following project from the application of the provision of Chapter-II and Chapter-III of this Act, namely:- Government Infrastructure projects including Schools, Colleges, Universities, Hospitals, Panchayat Buildings, Anganbadi Centres, Rail, Road, Waterways, electrification, irrigation, housing for the economically weaker section, Water supply, Pipelines, Transmission and other Government Buildings for undertaking such projects advise of Gram Sabha/Local Authority shall also be taken.