Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013

Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013
Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013
Parliament of India
	Long title An Act to ensure, in consultation with institutions of local self-government and Gram Sabhas established under the Constitution, a humane, participative, informed and transparent process for land acquisition for industrialisation, development of essential infrastructural 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 acquired or are affected by such acquisition and make adequate provisions for such affected persons for their rehabilitation and resettlement and for ensuring that the cumulative outcome of compulsory acquisition should be that affected persons become partners in development leading to an improvement in their post–acquisition social and economic status and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. ;
Citation	No. 30 of 2013
Territorial extent	Whole of India
Enacted by	Parliament of India
Enacted	29 August 2013 and 5 September 2013(Lok Sabha) ; 4 September 2013 (Rajya Sabha)
Assented to	27 September 2013
Signed	27 September 2013
Commenced	1 January 2014
Bill citation	No. 77-C of 2011
Committee report	17 May 2012
Repeals
	Land Acquisition Act, 1894
	Status: In force

The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 (also Land Acquisition Act, 2013 or LARR Act or RFCTLARR Act) is an Act of Indian Parliament that regulates land acquisition and lays down the procedure and rules for granting compensation, rehabilitation and resettlement to the affected persons in India. The Act has provisions regarding fair compensation to those whose land is being acquired, brings transparency to the process of acquisition of land to set up factories or buildings, infrastructural projects and assures rehabilitation of those affected. The Act replaced the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 enacted during British rule.

The Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2011 was introduced in the Lok Sabha on 7 September 2011, which was passed by it on 29 August 2013 and by the Rajya Sabha on 4 September 2013. The bill then received the assent of the President of India on 27 September 2013. The Act came into force from 1 January 2014.

In December 2014 the Land Acquisition Ordinance 2014 was issued. An amendment bill was then introduced in Parliament. The Lok Sabha passed the amendment bill but not the Rajya Sabha. On 30 May 2015, President of India promulgated the amendment as an ordinance for third time. The Supreme Court refused to stay the ordinance following a public interest litigation. The amendment bill was referred to a joint parliamentary committee. The committee was not able to attain a consensus. The amendment bill lapsed.