15 Land Acquisition · 15.2 RFCTLARR Act 2013: acquisition procedure

15.2.1 RFCTLARR Sections 4–10 and 14: Social Impact Assessment, Expert Group, food-security safeguard and SIA lapse

Before any preliminary notification, the Government must carry out a Social Impact Assessment (s.4, within six months), hold a public hearing (s.5), publish the report (s.6), get it appraised by an Expert Group (s.7, within two months) and examine it (s.8); s.10 protects irrigated multi-cropped land, and s.14 makes the SIA lapse if no s.11 notification follows within twelve months of appraisal.

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  • Social Impact Assessment
  • SIA
  • section 4
  • six months
  • Social Impact Management Plan
  • public hearing section 5
  • section 6
  • Expert Group section 7
  • two months
  • section 8
  • section 9 urgency exemption
  • section 10 food security
  • irrigated multi-cropped land
  • linear projects
  • section 14 lapse
  • twelve months
  • section 10A Maharashtra

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