PROVISION OF INFRASTRUCTURAL AMENITIES
For resettlement of populations, the following infrastructural facilities and basic minimum
amenities are to be provided at the cost of the Requisitioning Authority to ensure that the resettled
population in the new village or colony can secure for themselves a reasonable standard of community
life and can attempt to minimise the trauma involved in displacement.
A reasonably habitable and planned settlement would have, as a minimum, the following facilities
and resources, as appropriate:
Serial
No.
Component of infrastructure amenities provided/proposed to be
provided by the acquirer of land
Details of infrastructure
amenities provided by the
acquirer of land
(1) (2) (3)
1. Roads within the resettled villages and an all-weather road link to the
nearest pucca road, passages and easement rights for all the resettled
families be adequately arranged.
2. Proper drainage as well as sanitation plans executed before physical
resettlement.
3. One or more assured sources of safe drinking water for each family as
per the norms prescribed by the Government of India.
4. Provision of drinking water for cattle.
5. Grazing land as per proportion acceptable in the State.
6. A reasonable number of Fair Price Shops.
7. Panchayat Ghars, as appropriate.
8. Village level Post Offices, as appropriate, with facilities for opening
saving accounts.
9. Appropriate seed-cum-fertilizer storage facility if needed.
10. Efforts must be made to provide basic irrigation facilities to the
agricultural land allocated to the resettled families if not from the
irrigation project, then by developing a cooperative or under some
Government scheme or special assistance.
11. All new villages established for resettlement of the displaced persons
shall be provided with suitable transport facility which must include
public transport facilities through local bus services with the nearby
growth centres/urban localities.
12. Burial or cremation ground, depending on the caste- communities at
the site and their practices.
13. Facilities for sanitation, including individual toilet points.
14. Individual single electric connections (or connection through nonconventional sources of energy like solar energy), for each household
and for public lighting.
15. Anganwadi’s providing child and mother supplemental nutritional
services.
16. School as per the provisions of the Right of Children to Free and
Compulsory Education Act, 2009 (35 of 2009);
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(1) (2) (3)
17. Sub-health centre within two kilometres range.
18. Primary Health Centre as prescribed by the Government of India.
19. Playground for children.
20. One community centre for every hundred families.
21. Places of worship and chowpal/tree platform for every fifty families for
community assembly, of numbers and dimensions consonant with the
affected area.
22. Separate land must be earmarked for traditional tribal institutions.
23. The forest dweller families must be provided, where possible, with
their forest rights on non-timber forest produce and common property
resources, if available close to the new place of settlement and, in case
any such family can continue their access or entry to such forest or
common property in the area close to the place of eviction, they must
continue to enjoy their earlier rights to the aforesaid sources of
livelihood.
24. Appropriate security arrangements must be provided for the settlement,
if needed.
25. Veterinary service centre as per norms.
NOTE.– Details of each component of infrastructural amenities mentioned under column (2) against
serial numbers 1 to 25 should be indicated by the acquirer of land under column (3).