GK
RTI ACT 2005
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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State can usurp a private land or building for a public purpose
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A person is prevented from building twelve bungalows
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Ceiling to be fixed for leasing lands
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Objectives of the Land Acquisition Act To ensure landowners and other affected families have to go through minimal disturbance, the process to procure land can only be undertaken in contemplation with the local self-government and gram sabhas. To ensure that compensation offered to the affected families is fair.
Detailed explanation-2: -Article 31(2) categorically states that a land can be acquired by the state only for Public Purpose. Broadly speaking, public purpose would include a purpose, in which the general interest of the community, as opposed to a particular interest of the individual, in generally and vitally concerned .
Detailed explanation-3: -Public purpose in land acquisition act 2013-Section 2(1) defines “public purpose” as national security/defence purpose. Other strategic purposes for which land can be acquired are housing development projects for the poor or rehabilitation projects for people affected by natural calamities.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Act has provisions to provide fair compensation to those whose land is taken away, brings transparency to the process of acquisition of land to set up factories or buildings, infrastructural projects and assures rehabilitation of those affected.