Does lack of landownership and property rights deny people equal access to compensation?
An encroacher family, who is landless as defined in the Orissa Prevention of Land Encroachment Act (OPLEA) 1972, and is in possession of the encroached land at least for a period of ten years continuously prior to the date of preliminary notification for acquisition of private land in the locality will get ex-gratia equal to compensation admissible under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 for similar category of land to the extent of land under his/her physical possession up to a maximum of one standard acre, if the encroachment is unobjectionable. While determining the extent of land for such compensation the rayati land held by him/her is to be taken into account. An encroacher family, who is homestead less as defined in the OPLEA 1972 and is in possession of the encroached land at least for a period of ten years continuously prior to the date of preliminary notification for acquisition of private land in the locality will get ex- gratia, equal to compensation for similar category of hom
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