LawgistThe Railways Act
20CEvaluation of damages during survey, measurement, etc
1[20C. Evaluation of damages during survey, measurement, etc.-- The damages caused while carrying out works on land such as survey, digging or boring sub-soil, marking boundaries or cutting trenches or clearing away any standing crop, fence or forest or doing such other acts or things which may cause damages while acting under section 20B particularly relating to land which is excluded from acquisition proceeding, shall be evaluated and compensation shall be paid to the persons having interest in that land, within six months from the completion of the said works.]
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1. Ins. by Act 11 of 2008, s. 3 (w.e.f. 31-1-2008)
LAND ACQUISITION FOR A SPECIAL RAILWAY PROJECT
- 20A Power to acquire land, etc
- 20B Power to enter for survey, etc
- 20C Evaluation of damages during survey, measurement, etc
- 20D Hearing of objections, etc
- 20E Declaration of acquisition
- 20F Determination of amount payable as compensation
- 20G Criterion for determination of market-value of land
- 20H Deposit and payment of amount
- 20-I Power to take possession
- 20J Right to enter into land where land has vested in Central Government
- 20K Competent authority to have certain powers of civil court
- 20L Utilisation of land for the purpose it is acquired
- 20M Sharing with landowners the difference in price of a land when transferred for a higher consideration
- 20N Land Acquisition Act 1 of 1894 not to apply
- 20-O Application of the National Rehabilitation and Resettlement Policy, 2007 to persons affected due to land acquisition
- 20P Power to make rules in respect of matters in this Chapter
