Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013
16. Hearing of
objections.
1.
Any
person interested in any land which has been notified under sub-section (1) 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
notification, 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.
1.
2.
Every
objection under sub-section (1) 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 (1) 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 sub-section
(2) shall be final.