AIZWAL: Mizoram state legislative assembly on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution to adopt “The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation, and Resettlement Act, 2013″ for application in the state. The resolution was moved by revenue and land settlement minister B Lalchhanzova.
Lalchhanzova said the state’s land acquisition law — The Mizoram Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2016 — had been rendered inapplicable by the Gauhati high court. With several pending land acquisition processes requiring a valid legal framework, the state needed to adopt a central law on the subject.
Under Clause (a) of Article 371G of the Constitution, which provides special safeguards for Mizoram, no parliamentary law related to the religious or social practices of Mizos, Mizo customary law and procedures, administration of civil and criminal justice, or land ownership and transfer applies to Mizoram unless the state legislature passes a resolution to that effect. Hence, the state legislature needed to adopt the central land acquisition law officially.
“The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013,” already applicable across India, was officially adopted in Mizoram following the passage of the resolution in the Assembly.
With this adoption, Mizoram now has a legally enforceable framework for land acquisition, ensuring transparency and fair compensation for affected parties.
