Section 3 of THE NAGARJUNASAGAR PROJECT (ACQUISITION OF LAND) ACT, 1956 ACT No. XXXII OF 1956

Acquisition of lands in Nagarjunasagar project area - (1) The Government may acquire any land in the project area for a project purpose.

1. (2)The acquisition shall be made in accordance with the provisions of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (Central Act I of 1894) (herein after in this section referred to as the said Act), subject to the following modifications:-
   1. (i)For section 11 of the said Act, the following section shall be substituted, namely:- “11. Enquiry and Award by Collector - On the day so fixed, or on any other day to which the enquiry has been adjourned, the Collector shall proceed to enquire into the objections, if any, which any person interested has stated pursuant to a 1. For Statement of Objects and Reasons, see Andhra Gazette, Part IV-A, dated the 9th August 1956, pages 117-118. notice given under section 9 to the measurements made under section 8, into the market value of the land on the 1st July, 1953 and the value of any improvements to the land effected after that date and before the date of the publication of the notification under sub-section (1) of section 4, into the value of the land at the date of the publication of the notification under sub-section (1) of section 4, and into the respective interests of the persons claiming the compensation and shall make an award under his hand of-
   2. (i)the true area of the land;
   3. (ii)the compensation which in his opinion should be allowed for the land; and
   4. (iii)the apportionment of the said compensation among all the persons known or believed to be interested in the land, of whom, or of whose claims, he has information, whether or not they have respectively appeared before him.”;
   5. (ii)after sub-clause (ii) of clause (b) of sub-section (2) of section 17 of the said Act, as amended by the ¹[Land Acquisition (Andhra Pradesh Amendment) Act, 1948 (Act XXI of 1948),] the following shall be added, namely:“or
   6. (iii)for any purpose connected with the Nagarjunasagar Project in the area to which the Nagarjunasagar Project (Acquisition of Land) Act, 1956, extends.”;
2. (3)in sub-section (1) of section 23 of the said Act, for clause first, the following clause shall be substituted, namely:- “first, the market-value of the land on the 1st July 1953 and the value of any improvements to the land effected after that date and before the date of the publication of the notification under subsection (1) of section 4 or the market-value of the land on the date of the publication of the said notification, whichever is less.”; Explanation— The Government may, on the request of the land owner, agree to give in exchange any Government land the cost of which is, in their opinion, equal to the cost of the land acquired, or agree to pay the cost of a portion of the land acquired and for the remaining portion give Government land the cost of which is in their opinion equal to the amount due.” 2[3-A. Application of Central Act I of 1894 for acquisition of lands in certain project areas- (1) In this section,—
   1. (a)‘Central Act’ means the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (Central Act 1 of 1894), with the subsequent statutory modifications thereto as in force at the commencement of this Act in the territories of the State of Andhra Pradesh which, immediately before the 1st November 1956, were comprised in the State of Andhra;
   2. (b)‘Hyderabad Act’ means the Land Acquisition Act (Hyderabad Act IX of 1309 F).
3. (2)Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (2) of section 1 of the Central Act and in section 1 of the Hyderabad Act, the Central Act as amended by section 3 shall, and the Hyderabad Act shall not, apply to the 2. This section was inserted by section 3 of the Nagarjunasagar Project (Acquisition of Land) (Andhra Pradesh Amendment) Act, 1959 (Andhra Pradesh Act XVII of 1959). acquisition of lands for project purposes in the districts of Nalgonda and Khammam.]

↩2.Substituted for the words “Guntur, Kurnool and Nellore” in the State of Andhra by section 2(i) of the Nagarjunasagar Project (Acquisition of Land) (Andhra Pradesh Amendment) Act, 1959 (Andhra Pradesh Act XVII of 1959).

↩3.Substituted for the words “Andhra Gazette” by section 2 (ii) of the Nagarjunasagar Project

↩1.Substituted for the original Short title by the First Schedule to the Andhra Pradesh Laws (Amendment of Short Titles) Act, 1961 (Andhra Pradesh Act IX of 1961).