Section 15 Hearing of Objections - The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act 2013

Hearing of Objections - Section 15 of Land Acquisition Act 2013

 

 

Hearing of Objections is defined under section 15 of Land Acquisition Act 2013. Provisions under this Section is:

 

Section 15 of Land Acquisition Act 2013 "Hearing of Objections"

(1) Any person interested in any land which has been notified under sub-section (I) of section 11, as being required or likely to be required for a public purpose, may within sixty days from the date of the publication of the preliminary notifications, object to-

(a) the area and suitability of land proposed to be acquired;

(b) justification offered for public purpose;

(c) the findings of the Social Impact Assessment report.

(2) Every abjection under sub-section ( I ) shall be made to the Collector in writing, and the Collector shall give the objector an opportunity of being heard in person or by any person authorised by him in this behalf or by an Advocate and shall, after hearing all such objections and after making such further inquiry, if any, as he thinks necessary, either make a report in respect of the land which has been notified under sub-section ( I ) of section 11, or make different reports in respect of different parcels of such land, to the appropriate Government, containing his recommendations on the objections, together with the record of the proceedings held by him along with a separate report giving therein the approximate cost of land acquisition, particulars as to the number of affected families likely to be resettled, for the decision of that Government.

(3) The decision of the appropriate Government on the objections made under subsection (2) shall be final.