(1) This Act may be called the Odisha Land Rights to Slum Dwellers Act, 2017.
(2) It extends to urban areas in the whole of the State of Odisha.
(3) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 30 th day of August, 2017.
2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, —
(a) “Authorised Officer” means the head of the Slum Redevelopment and Rehabilitation Committee or any officer authorized by the State Government, by order, to exercise powers as may be prescribed;
(b) “basic urban services” means services of drinking water supply, sanitation, drainage, sewerage, solid waste disposal and street lighting;
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(c) “Collector” means the Collector of a district and includes Additional District Magistrate or any officer specially appointed by the State Government to perform the functions of a Collector under this Act;
(d) “Committee” means the Urban Area Slum Redevelopment and Rehabilitation Committee constituted under section 6;
(e) “EWS” means an economically weaker section beneficiary whose household income is upto such limit as notified by the State Government, from time to time;
(f) “family” means husband, wife, unmarried son, unmarried daughter or any other person related by blood and wholly dependent on the slum dweller;
(g) “Financial Institution” means any company possessing licence under the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 to carry on banking business and includes a Housing Finance Institution which has obtained certificate of registration under the National Housing Bank Act, 1987;
(h) “Government land” means any land owned or acquired by the State Government or its undertakings or the Municipal Council or the Notified Area Council, as the case may be;
(i) “in-situ redevelopment” means the process of redevelopment of existing slum areas by providing basic civic and infrastructural services to the slum dwellers, on the land on which the slum is based;
(j) “landless person” means a person who is a citizen of India and does not own either in his own name or in the name of any member of his family any house or land, or land rights granted or inherited under this Act, in the urban area;
(k) “land right” means right to land assigned to slum dwellers under section 3;
(l) “member” means a member of the Committee or sub-committee, as the case may be, and includes the Chairperson;
(m) “occupation” means occupation of a land by a slum dweller for residential purposes;
(n) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
(o) “public interest” means land usage as prescribed under the city development plan or zonal development plans under the approved city development plan or the provision of basic urban services to public at large or prohibition of human habitation in environmentally hazardous sites or ecologically sensitive sites or heritage sites;
(p) “redevelopment” means improvement to the existing slum by providing basic urban services and facilitating improvement of housing conditions in accordance with the housing scheme framed by the State Government, from time to time;
(q) “rehabilitation” means relocation of slum dwellers to other location in accordance with the housing scheme framed by the State Government, from time to time;
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(r) “slum” or “slum area” means a compact settlement of at least twenty households with a collection of poorly built tenements, mostly of temporary nature, crowded together usually with inadequate sanitary and drinking water facilities in unhygienic conditions, which may be on the State Government land in an urban area;
(s) “slum dweller” means any landless person in occupation within the limits of a slum area;
(t) “tenable settlements” means the settlement as decided by the Committee, where existence of human habitation does not entail undue risk to the safety or health or life of the residents or habitation or such sites are not considered contrary to public interest or the land is not required for any public or development purpose;
(u) “untenable settlements” means such areas where existence of human habitation entails undue risk to the safety or health or life of the inhabitants themselves or where habitation on such areas is considered by the Committee not to be in public interest;
(v) “urban area” means the area comprised within the limits of Municipal Council and Notified Area Council constituted under the Odisha Municipal Act, 1950;
(w) Words and expressions used herein but not defined shall have the same meaning as assigned to them under the Odisha Municipal Act, 1950.
CHAPTER II LAND RIGHTS