1. PROCEDURE TO ACQUIRE LAND UNDER THE LAND ACQUISITION ACT,1894 PRESENTED BY:- ISHA KHALID

2. Acquisition is the act of becoming the owner of certain property, the act by which one acquires or procures the property.

3. Land of the public may be acquired by the State for a public purpose meaning hereby for the use of the public or people at large, or, for a company.

4. The purpose of land acquisition is two-fold: firstly to fulfill the needs of Government and companies for land required by them for their projects, and secondly, to determine and pay compensation to those private persons or bodies whose land is so acquired. The exercise of the power of acquisition has been limited to public purposes.

5. The procedure for acquiring land has been described in the Land Acquisition Act, 1984.

6. Procedure for the Land Acquisition

7. Investigation When a local authority or a company requires a land, an application is required to be made by it to the revenue authority. The application should be accompanied with a copy of the plan showing survey no, purpose of acquisition and the reason for the particular site to be chosen, and other relevant facts. After the government has been fully satisfied about all the facts, it will issue a notification.

8. Notification The next step is the issuance of a Notification under Section 4 of the Act. This notification indicates the desire of District Collector that a land situated in particular locality is needed for any public purpose or for a company and enables him to depute revenue staff to enter upon the land, survey its location and do all other acts necessary to ascertain whether the land is suitable for the purpose, it is being acquired.

9. Objection and confirmation The main objective of issuing notification is to call for objections, if any, against such acquisitions from the owner or others who are having certain interest over the property: giving them an opportunity to raise claims against the move of the government for acquiring their lands.

10. The person aggrieved by such notification shall file their objections within 30 days from the date of the publication of notification. Every objection shall be made to the Collector / Revenue Officer in writing.

11. The Collector/ Revenue Officer shall give the objector an opportunity of being heard either in person or by pleader and after hearing the objections, the Collector/ Revenue Officer shall make further inquiry and submit the case for the decision of the Provincial Government, together with the record of the proceedings held by him and report containing his recommendations on the objections. The decision of the Provincial Government on the objections shall be final. If no objection then award will issue.

12. Claim and Award In determining the compensation the market value of the land is determined at the date of notification. The rise and fall in the value during the period of transaction and notification is taken into consideration.

13. Compensation is also payable when:  Part of the property is proposed for acquisition in such a manner that the remainder deprecates in the value.  When the land notified for acquisition has standing crops or trees.  If the person interested has to change his place of residence or business then the excess rent payable for the new premises is also considered for compensation.

14. After necessary inquiries the collector declares his award under section 11 of the Land Acquisition Act showing true area of the land, total amount of compensation if there are more than one owners of claimants.

15. Reference to Court Any person interested to whom the award is not satisfactory can submit a written application to the court. This application should be made within 6 weeks from the date of declaration of the award.

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