(1) The State Government or Collector, as the case may be, shall identify or establish an independent outsourced district Social Impact Assessment agency, hereinafter referred to as Agency, which shall be responsible for ensuring that social impact assessment study is conducted by such person other than the requiring body, for all the cases of land acquisition provided under the Act. The State Government may also nominate Planning department of the government for the purpose of selecting Social Impact Assessment agency. It shall complete the work described in sub-rule (3).
(2) For this purpose, the State Government or the Collector or the planning department , as the case may be, shall invite an application from the department of social work of the recognized Universities and Colleges, faculties, NGO'S and professionals, who shall be responsible for conducting the Social Impact Assessment as per the Act.
(3) The State Government , the Collector or the planning department, as the case may be, shall draw out a list of such accredited people of the department of social work of the universities and colleges, faculties, NGO’S and professionals, After assessing their capacity through an interview and the experienced accredit to them to evaluate the Social impact assessment study for the project, shall constitute an experts group and the name of the agency shall be notified as per the provision given under sub-rule (2) of rule 3 of these rules. :
(4) The requiring body shall not be involved in any way in the appointment of the Agency being appointed to carry out the Social Impact Assessment in the project area. ;
(5) The size and selection criteria for the Agency shall be as per the projectspecific terms of reference.
(6) In those areas, where Agencies with such capacities are not available or where engagement of such agencies is infeasible in cost-benefit terms, then the state Government may go ahead with the Social Impact Assessment study process through its own employees or officers. For this purpose, State Government may nominate Chief development officer or other district level officer, not below the rank of Additional district magistrate, as nodal officer who shall be responsible to monitor the process.
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(7) The selected agency conducting the Social Impact Assessment shall appoint a group leader to liaison with the Collector and other members of Social Impact Assessment agency throughout the assessment period, who shall be responsible for carrying out the required activities within the given time frame.
(8) While selecting the agency, it is to be ensured that there is no conflict of interest involving the team members appointed to assess the concerned project.
(9) If at any stage, it is found that any team member or any family member of the team member has directly or indirectly received any benefit from the requiring body or any other stakeholder in the project, the said member shall be disqualified and the State Government shall terminates his/her services.