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The Mizoram Gazette

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RNI No. 27009/1973 Postal Regn. No. NE-313(MZ) 2006-2008 VOL - XLV Aizawl, Friday 6.5.2016 Vaisakha 16, S.E. 1938, Issue No. 121

NOTIFICATION

No. H. 12018/241/2015-LJD, the 4th May, 2016. The following Act is hereby published for general information.

The Mizoram (Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement) Act, 2016. (Act No. 5 of 2016) {Received the assent of the Governor of Mizoram on the 22nd April, 2016}

THE MIZORAM (LAND ACQUISITION, REHABILITATION AND RESETTLEMENT) ACT, 2016.

AN ACT to ensure a humane, participative, informed and transparent process for land acquisition for industrialization, development of essential infrastructural facilities and urbanization 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.

It is enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Mizoram in the Sixty-Seventh year of the Republic of India, under the protection guaranteed under the provisions of Article 371G of the Constitution of India, since the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 (Government of India Act No. 30 of 2013) has not been adopted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Mizoram.

THE MIZORAM (LAND ACQUISITION, REHABILITATION AND RESETTLEMENT) ACT, 2016