law: Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 
  Chapter III Special
  
  Provision to Safeguard Food Security
  10. Special provision to
  
  safeguard food security.
  1.     
  
    Save
  
  as otherwise provided in sub-section (2), no irrigated multi-cropped land shall
  
  be acquired under this Act.
  2.     
  
    Such
  
  land may be acquired subject to the condition that it is being done under
  
  exceptional circumstances, as a demonstrable last resort, where the acquisition
  
  of the land referred to in sub-section (1) shall, in aggregate for all projects
  
  in a districts or state, in no case exceed such limits as may be notified by
  
  the appropriate Government considering the relevant State specific factors and
  
  circumstances.
  3.     
  
    Whenever
  
  multi-crop irrigated land is acquired under sub-section (2), an equivalent area
  
  of culturable wasteland shall be developed for agricultural purposes or an
  
  amount equivalent to the value of the land acquired shall be deposited with the
  
  appropriate Government for investment in agriculture for enhancing
  
  food-security.
  4.     
  
    In
  
  a case not falling under sub-section (1), the acquisition of the agriculture
  
  land in aggregate for all projects in a district or State, shall in no case
  
  exceed such limits of the total net sown area of that district or State, as may
  
  be notified by the appropriate Government:
  Provided that the
  
  provisions of this section shall not apply in the case of projects that are
  
  linear in nature such as those relating to railways, highways, major district
  
  roads, irrigation canals, power lines and the like.