Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013
Chapter III Special
Provision to Safeguard Food Security
10. Special provision to
safeguard food security.
1.
Save
as otherwise provided in sub-section (2), no irrigated multi-cropped land shall
be acquired under this Act.
2.
Such
land may be acquired subject to the condition that it is being done under
exceptional circumstances, as a demonstrable last resort, where the acquisition
of the land referred to in sub-section (1) shall, in aggregate for all projects
in a districts or state, in no case exceed such limits as may be notified by
the appropriate Government considering the relevant State specific factors and
circumstances.
3.
Whenever
multi-crop irrigated land is acquired under sub-section (2), an equivalent area
of culturable wasteland shall be developed for agricultural purposes or an
amount equivalent to the value of the land acquired shall be deposited with the
appropriate Government for investment in agriculture for enhancing
food-security.
4.
In
a case not falling under sub-section (1), the acquisition of the agriculture
land in aggregate for all projects in a district or State, shall in no case
exceed such limits of the total net sown area of that district or State, as may
be notified by the appropriate Government:
Provided that the
provisions of this section shall not apply in the case of projects that are
linear in nature such as those relating to railways, highways, major district
roads, irrigation canals, power lines and the like.