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    Arunachal Pradesh Urban and Country Planning Act, 2007.

    Legislation
    India, Asia, Southern Asia
    land-use planning
    farmland
    public ownership
    urban areas

    This Act provides for the establishment of the State Urban and Country Planning Board and defines its composition and its powers and functions.The Board shall guide, direct and assist Local Planning Authorities to frame policies in matters relating to the planning, development and use of rural and urban land in the State.The State Government or the Board may declare any area to be a Local Planning Area and shall constitute for each area a Local Planning Authority which shall have the power to prepare a Present Land Use Map and a Land Use Register in the form to be prescribed indicating the

  3. Library Resource

    Orissa Government Land Settlement Act, 1962.

    An Act to provide for settlement of Government land in the State of Orissa.

    Legislation
    January, 1962
    Asia, Southern Asia, India
    land-use planning

    The Orissa Government Land Settlement Act 1962 provides for practice or usage having the force of law, Government shall not be deemed to be debarred from exercising all or any of the following powers in respect of Government lands, namely: (a) to reserve such portion of the lands as they deem proper for the purpose of being used as house-sites or for any communal or industrial purpose or for any other purpose whatsoever (b) to charge premium for settlement of any such land (c) to charge rent for the lands so settled; (d) to charge fees on applications for settlement of lands and such other

  5. Library Resource

    Right to Homestead land in Rural Bihar

    A Study of its Status, Issues, and Challenges in Implementation of Policies and Provisions

    Legislation
    November, 2017
    India
    land law

    Access to homestead land, and housing in turn, are basic requirements for human survival. Every citizen needs to have a safe, secure and healthy place to live, work and lead a life of dignity. A house provides not only physical protection against the vagaries of nature, but also space and privacy to an individual and his family for physical, emotional and intellectual growth.

  6. Library Resource

    The Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005

    Legislation
    September, 2005
    India
    Land & Food Security
    land inheritance rights
    land ownership
    property rights
    women

    This Hindu Succession Act Amendment made in 2005 was to grant, among others, rights to women to inherit agricultural land of the parents and husband. Under this amendment the daughters, including married daughters, are coparceners in joint family property, with the same birth right as sons, to share, claim partition, and (by presumption) to become karta (managers), while also sharing the liabilities. This would be applicable for Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists and Jains religious communities of India.

  7. Library Resource

    The Manipur Land Revenue and Land Reforms Act, 1960

    Legislation
    September, 1960
    India
    land law

    This Act may be called the Manipur Land Revenue and Land Reforms Act, 1960.

    It extends to the whole of the State of Manipur except the hill areas thereof: Provided that the State Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, extend the whole or any part of any section of this Act to any of the hill areas of Manipur also as may be specified in such notification. 

  9. Library Resource

    The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act

    Legislation & Policies
    Legislation
    September, 2013
    India
    compensation
    displacement
    expropriation

    An Act to ensure,in consultation with institutions oflocal self-government and Gram Sabhas established under the Constitution, a humane, participative, informed andt ransparent process for land acquisition for industrialisation, development of essential infrastructuml facilities and urbanisation with the least disturbance to the owners of the land and other affected families and provide just and fair compensation to the affected families whose land has been acquired or proposed to be cquired or are affected by such acquisition and make adequate provisions for such affected persons for the i

  10. Library Resource

    The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act

    Legislation & Policies
    Legislation
    January, 2007
    India
    community land rights
    forest conservation
    forest law

    "An Act to recognise and vest the forest rights and occupation in forest land in forestdw~ing Scheduled Tribes and other traditional forest dwellers who have been residing in such forests for generations but whose rights could not be recorded; to provide for a framework for recording the forest rights so vested and the nature of evidence required for such recognition and vesting in respect of forest land"

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