(1) Whenever a Social Impact Assessment is required to be prepared under section 4, the Appropriate Government shall conduct a public hearing through the district administration when a draft of Social Impact Assessment study report is prepared by the Agency, in the affected area by giving a notice in two daily newspapers in the local language circulating in the affected area as well as by affixing it on some conspicuous places in the affected area, not less than fifteen days before the public hearing indicating its time, place and date.
(2) Public hearing shall be conducted in all the village Panchayats and local bodies in the affected area.
(3) While selecting the date, time and place for public hearing convenience of the affected families shall be considered with top priority.
(4) No two public hearings shall be conducted simultaneously.
(5) All public hearings shall be video recorded and transcripted. This recording and transcription shall be handed over along with the final Social Impact Assessment Report.
(6) The views and suggestions expressed by the affected families in the public hearing shall be recorded and duly considered in the Social Impact Assessment Report.
(7) The responsible representatives from the Requiring Body, designated land acquisition functionaries and the rehabilitation and resettlement functionaries shall remain present in the public hearing and address the questions and concerns raised by the affected families.
(8) The members of the non-Government Organizations and the media shall be allowed to attend the public hearing.
(9) The public hearing shall be conducted in local language only.
भाग चार-अ--१९६--४अ र्ट महाराष्ट्र शासन राजपत्र असाधारण भाग चार-अ, ऑगस्ट २७, २०१४/भाद्र ५, शके १९३६
(10) The draft Social Impact Assessment study report alongwith the Social Impact Management Plan shall be distributed to all members of the panchayat in the affected area eight days prior to the date of public hearing. The copies of the said report shall also be kept in the offices of Tahsildar, Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Block Development Officer and the Collector eight days prior to the date of public hearing. A copy of the report shall also be given to the Requiring Body. The copy shall also be made available to any person whosoever demanded so by charging copy fees as chargeable for documents made available under the Maharashtra Right to Information Rules, 2005.
(11) If public hearing is disturbed by misbehavior of miscreants present, leading to disturb public law and order, one more public hearing after seven days shall be conducted. If on second occasion also public hearing is disturbed then in that case the public hearing shall be treated as deemed to have been conducted.
(12) The notification issued by the Appropriate Government for the commencement of consultation and of Social Impact Assessment study under sub-section (1) of section 4, shall be published by the Administrator appointed under sub-section (1) of section 43, in local language in two daily newspapers circulating in the affected areas and by way of a public notice to be published by affixing it at some conspicuous places in the affected area.
(13) The Administrator appointed under sub-section (1) of section 43 shall publish the summary of the Social Impact Assessment study report, as provided by the Agency alongwith the Social Impact Assessment study report and also the summary of the Social Impact Management Plan referred in sub-section (6) of section 4, as provided by the Agency alongwith the Social Impact Management Plan, in the affected area by publishing the same in the local language, in two daily newspapers circulating in the affected area.