(1) Decision on Social Impact Assessment and Social Impact Management plan shall be taken by State Government as per the norms given under section 8 of the Act.
(2) The State Government shall examine the recommendations of the Multidisciplinary Expert Group, report of the Collector, if any, and make its final recommendations for such area for acquisition which would ensure minimum displacement of people, minimum disturbance to the infrastructure, ecology and minimum adverse impact on the individuals affected in its evaluation process. The State Government shall also comply with the directions given under sub section (1) of section 8 of the Act.
(3) When it appears that land is required or likely to be required in any area for any public purpose, then the final recommendation shall be made available to the Collector to take further steps for acquisition. These recommendations shall also be made available in local language to the Gram Panchayat, Nagar Nigam/Nagar Panchayat/Nagar Palika Parishad, in the offices of the Collector, the Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Office of concerned Land Acquisition Officer, Administrator, Tehsildar. It shall also be published in two daily newspapers circulating in the affected area of which at least one shall be in the regional language, and also by way of a public notice by affixing it at some conspicuous places in the affected areas and uploaded on the website of the district or the State Government \WDATA-S\Data 8_D1595 RPH Niyamawali- Rajswa. eng-2016 doc Consideration of the Social Impact Assessment report, recommendation s of the Expert Group by the State Government 70 उत्तर प्रदेश असाधारण गजट, 23 नवम्बर, 2016 Web-based Work Flow and Management information System (MIS) for land Acquisition Rehabilitation and Resettlement Inventory of Waste, Barren and Unutilized Land Requirement and procedure to obtain
12. The State Government shall create a dedicated, user-friendly website at state and district level that may serve as a public platform on which the entire work flow of each acquisition case will be hosted beginning with the notification of the Social Impact Assessment and tracking each step of decision-making, implementation and audit.
13. To ensure acquisition of minimum amount of land and to facilitate the utilization of unutilized public lands, the State Government, by way of notification, shall make necessary arrangements to authorise any department to prepare a districtlevel inventory report of waste, barren and unutilized public land. If it is requested or required then the land available in the State Government land bank and shall be made available to the Social Impact Assessment team and Expert group. The inventory report shall be updated from time to time.
CHAPTER III CONSENT
14. In case land is sought to be acquired for the purposes as specified under sub-section (2) of section 2, the prior consent of the affected land owners as per provisions of sub-section (2) of section 2 shall be obtained by the Collector concerned in form-5, along with the Social Impact Assessment study. Some of the principles to obtain consent given as under:—
(a) The Collector may constitute a team of revenue officers or depute any other officers under his control to assist him in the process of obtaining the prior consent.
(b) The Collector and Sub Divisional Officer exercising the powers of District Collector shall take steps to resolve outstanding issues of land rights, land title and land records in the affected areas, so that all the land owners can be correctly identified before initiating consent procedures.
(c) The Collector shall also undertake a special drive for the purpose and complete the said exercise within a period of sixty days from the date of issuance of preliminary notification.
(d) The Collector shall, after completion of the aforesaid exercise of correcting and updating the land records shall draw out a list, of all affected land owners from whom consent must be sought, after considering the list . prepared by the Social Impact Assessment Agency.
(e) The list shall be made available in the affected area by displaying the list in conspicuous places of the affected areas for at least ten days before obtaining consent.
(f) The Collector shall in consultation with the representatives of Gram Panchayat or Nagar Panchayat or Nagar Palika Parishad or Municipal Corporation, as the case may be, notify the date, time and venue at least two weeks in advance, for holding the affected land owners meetings at the concern village or ward level. It shall also be published in two daily newspapers circulating in the affected area of which at least one shall be in the regional language. के
(g) The Requiring Body or its representative shall be present at all such affected land owners meetings and respond to the queries raised by the affected land owners. The terms and conditions of the project, Rehabilitation and Resettlement, Compensation and other measures committed by the Requiring Body shall be explained to the members in the local language and signatures of the members as well as the representative of Requiring Body shall be obtained on such terms and conditions.
(h) The proposed terms and conditions agreed by the Requiring Body shall also be made available in local language to each and every affected land owner, at least one week in advance.
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(i) The land owner shall give his individual consent to the authorized officer. ;
(Gj) The land owner shall give his written consent having his photograph affixed on it in the format attached and the digital impression of his thumb along with his signature (if he can make it) shall be printed on his affidavit.
(k) The authorized representative of the Requiring Body shall sign on the prescribed consent Form and shall put the seal of the Requiring Body towards its commitment to the consented terms and conditions.
(1) Any member of Gram panchayat, or Zila Panchayat, Lekhpal, Gram Vikas Adhikari or any Government servant may sign on the affidavit as a witness thereof that he recognizes the person who has given consent.
(m) The prescribed consent form shall be countersigned by the officer authorised by the Collector.
(n) The form of consent and declaration so obtained shal! be made available to the land acquisition officer in original, who will then prepare a list of all such land owners and shall provide it to the requiring body. One copy of this list shall also be attached with acquisition proposal, before issuing the preliminary notification under section 1 1(1) of the Act.
(o) All the individual consent taking procedure shall be video recorded.
(p) All persons interested in the same land can give consent on a single form.
(q) Single forms shall be used for giving consent by a same person for his different lands under acquisition.
(r) No land owner can withdraw his consent once given in the above manner.
(s) In case of a land situated in the Scheduled Area mentioned in the Fifth Schedule appended to the Constitution of India, the consent of the Gram Sabha shall be sought prior to the consent of the land owners.
(t) The consent taking process shall be concluded before issuing the Preliminary Notification under sub-section (1) of section 11.
(u) Every objection raised during the process of taking consent meeting shall be recorded and shall be considered by the requiring body.
(v) During the process of obtaining consent, those land owners, who were absent and not given his /her consent and also has not raised any objections before issuing of preliminary notification under section 11(1) of the Act, shall be considered as they have no objection for the on-going proposed acquisition.