law: Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 
  2.   Application of Act.
  1.     
  
    The
  
  provisions of this Act relating to land acquisition, compensation,
  
  rehabilitation and resettlement, shall apply, when the appropriate Government
  
  acquires land for its own use, hold and control, including for Public Sector Undertakings
  
  and for public purpose, and shall include the following purposes, namely:-
  a.      For strategic
  
  purposes relating to naval, military, air force, and armed forces of the Union,
  
  including central paramilitary forces or any work vital to national security or
  
  defence of India or State police, safety of the people; or
  b.     For infrastructure
  
  projects, which includes the following, namely:-
                       
  
   i.        
  
    All
  
  activities or items listed in the notification of the Government of India in
  
  the Department of Economic Affairs (Infrastructure Section) number
  
  13/6/2009-INF, dated the 27th March, 2012, excluding private hospitals, private
  
  educational institutions and private hotels;
                      
  
   ii.        
  
    Projects
  
  involving agro-processing, supply of inputs to agriculture, warehousing, cold
  
  storage facilities, marketing infrastructure for agriculture and allied
  
  activities such as dairy, fisheries, and meat processing, set up or owned by
  
  the appropriate Government or by a farmers' cooperative or by an institution
  
  set up under a statute;
                     
  
   iii.        
  
    Project
  
  for industrial corridors or mining activities, national investment and
  
  manufacturing zones, as designated in the National Manufacturing Policy;
                     
  
   iv.        
  
    Project
  
  for water harvesting and water conservation structures, sanitation;
                      
  
   v.        
  
    Project
  
  for Government administered, Government aided educational and research schemes
  
  or institutions;
                     
  
   vi.        
  
    Project
  
  for sports, heath care, tourism, transportation of space programme;
                    
  
   vii.        
  
    Any
  
  infrastructure facility as may be notified in this regard by the Central
  
  Government and after tabling of such notification in Parliament;
  a.     
  
  
  b.     
  
  
  c.      Project for project
  
  affected families;
  d.     Project for housing,
  
  or such income groups, as may be specified from time to time by the appropriate
  
  Government;
  e.      Project for planned
  
  development or the improvement of village sites or any site in the urban areas
  
  or provision of land for residential purposes for the weaker sections in rural
  
  and urban areas;
  f.      Project for
  
  residential purposes to the poor or landless or to persons residing in areas
  
  affected by natural calamities, or to persons displaced or affected by reason
  
  of the implementation of any scheme undertaken by the Government, any local
  
  authority or a corporation owned or controlled by the State.
  2.     
  
    The
  
  provisions of this Act relating to land acquisition, consent, compensation,
  
  rehabilitation and resettlement, shall also apply, when the appropriate
  
  Government acquires land for the following purposes, namely:-
  a.      for public private
  
  partnership projects, where the ownership of the land continues to vest with
  
  the government, for public purpose as defined in sub-section (1):
  b.     for private companies
  
  for public purpose, as defined in sub-section (1):
  Provided that in the
  
  case of acquisition for-
                       
  
   i.        
  
    private
  
  companies, the prior consent of at lest eighty per cent of those affected
  
  families, as defined in sub-clauses (i) and (v) of clause (c) of section 3; and
                      
  
   ii.        
  
    public
  
  private partnership projects, the prior consent of at least seventy per cent.
  
  Of those affected families, as defined in sub-clauses (i) and (v) of clause (c)
  
  of section 3, shall be obtained through a process as may be prescribed by the
  
  appropriate Government:
  Provided further that
  
  the process of obtaining the consent shall be carried out along with the Social
  
  Impact Assessment study referred to in section 4:
  Provided also that no
  
  land shall be transferred by way of acquisition, in the Scheduled Areas in
  
  contravention of any law (including any order or judgment of a court which has
  
  become final) relating to land transfer, prevailing in such Scheduled Areas.
  3.     
  
    The
  
  provisions relating to rehabilitation and resettlement under this Act shall
  
  apply in the cases where,-
  a.      a private company
  
  purchases land, equal to or more than such limits in rural areas or urban
  
  areas, as may be prescribed by the appropriate Government, through private
  
  negotiations with the owner of the land in accordance with the provisions of
  
  section 47;
  b.     a private company
  
  requests the appropriate Government for acquisition of a part of an area so
  
  prescribed for a public purpose:
  Provided that where a
  
  private company requests the appropriate Government for partial acquisition of
  
  land for public purpose, then, the rehabilitation and resettlement 
  
  entitlements under the Second Schedule shall be applicable for the entire area
  
  which includes the land purchased by the private company and acquired by the
  
  Government for the project as a whole.