law: Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 
  B.-Appraisal of
  
  Social Impact Assessment Report by an Expert Group
  7.   Appraised of Social
  
  Impact Assessment report by an Expert Group.
  1.     
  
    The
  
  appropriate Government shall ensure that the Social Impact Assessment report is
  
  evaluated by an independent multi-disciplinary Expert Group, as may be
  
  constituted by it.
  2.     
  
    The
  
  Expert Group constituted under sub-section (1) shall include the following,
  
  namely:-
  a.      two non-official
  
  social scientists;
  b.     two representatives
  
  of Panchayat, Gram Sabha, Municipality or Municipal Corporation, as the case
  
  may be;
  c.      two experts on
  
  rehabilitation; and
  d.     a technical expert in
  
  the subject relating to the project.
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  3.     
  
    The
  
  appropriate Government may nominate a person from amongst the members of the
  
  Expert Group as the Chairperson of the Group.
  4.     
  
    If
  
  the Expert Group constituted under sub-section (1), is of the opinion that,-
  a.      the project does not
  
  serve any public purpose; or
  b.     the social costs and
  
  adverse social impacts of the project outweigh the potential benefits, it shall
  
  make a recommendation within two months for the date of its constitution to the
  
  effect that the project shall be abandoned forthwith and no further steps to
  
  acquire the land will be initiated in respect of the same:
  Provided that the
  
  grounds for such recommendation shall be recorded in writing by the Expert
  
  Group giving the details and reasons for such decision:
  Provided further that
  
  where the appropriate Government, inspite of such recommendations, proceeds
  
  with the acquisition, then, it shall ensure that its reasons for doing so are
  
  recorded in writing.
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  4.     
  
  
  5.     
  
    If
  
  Expert Group constituted under sub-section (1), is of the opinion that,-
  a.      the project will
  
  serve any public purpose; and
  b.     the potential
  
  benefits outweigh the social costs and adverse social impacts, it shall make
  
  specific recommendations within two months from the date of its constitution
  
  whether the extent of land proposed to be acquired is the absolute bare-minimum
  
  extent needed for the project and whether there are no other less displacing
  
  options available:
  Provided that the
  
  grounds for such recommendation shall be recorded in writing by the Expert
  
  Group giving the details and reasons for such decision.
  6.     
  
    The
  
  recommendations of the Expert Group referred to in sub-sections (4) and (5)
  
  shall be made available in the local language to the Panchayat, Municipality
  
  or Municipal Corporation, as the case may be and the offices of the District
  
  Collector, the Sub-Divisional Magistrate and the Tehsil, and shall be published
  
  in the affected areas, in such manner as may be prescribed and uploaded on the
  
  website of the appropriate Government.