Public notice under land acquisition act
Dr Sangh Mittra
(Querist) 28 August 2012
This query is : Resolved
Sir,
Is it necessary to publish the names of the Land owners in the Public Notices issued under Section 4 and 6 of the Land Acquisition Act 1894? If yes any case Laws?
If it is not how many people remember their Plots or pieces of Land with the Hadbast, Khasra, Khatoni etc.?
If it is not how will the would be land losers to know that their pieces of Land are likely to be acquired as they may not be part of the Public for which the regional Public Notices were published? May be staying elsewhere, may not have anyone staying in the "locality" where land be situated?
At how many occasions the Land Acquisition Collector required to give individual Notices to the Land Owners?
Can the State gobble up a persons' Land at his back, without he ever knowing about the proceedings and without he reading the Public Notices confined to the regional jurisdiction of the Newspapers where it may be published?
Land Acquisition Act 1894 is a Central Law though Land is a State subject. Thus is it not mandatory for the State to notify the person owning Land who may be serving the Central Government and be away from the State's boundaries and may have none on the piece of his Land?
Regards,
Dr S Mittra
ajay sethi
(Expert) 28 August 2012
yes the detailed particulars are to be mentioned containing name of owners, survey numbers , area to be acquired .
[ Every declaration] shall be published in the Official Gazette[ and in two daily newspapers circulating in the locality in which the land is situated of which at least one shall be in the regional language, and the Collector shall cause public notice of the substance of such declaration to be given at convenient places in the said locality (the last of the dates of such publication and the giving of such public notice, being hereinafter referred to as the date of the publication of the declaration), and such declaration shall state] the district or other territorial division in which the land is situate, the purpose for which It is needed, its approximate area, and, where a plan shall have been made of the land, the place where such plan may be inspected.
(3) The said declaration shall be conclusive evidence that the land is needed for a public purpose or for a company, as the case may be; and, after making such declaration, the[ appropriate Government] may acquire the land in manner hereinafter appearing
