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On this Independence Day, as we unfurl the tricolor and celebrate our nation's progress, let us also honor the memory of those who gave their lives for our freedom. May this free edition stand as a testament to their sacrifices and a beacon of hope for a future built upon the pillars of education and progress. As you embark on this educational journey, remember that you are carrying forward the legacy of valor and determination. May this free edition be your guiding light as you strive to excel not just in your exams, but in life's pursuits. With deepest respect, Er. Suraj Krishna Mandekar (B.Tech Civil) Date - 15th August 2023 2  LARRA ACT,2013 Practice MCQ’s 1) What is the purpose of carrying out a 5) What does the Social Impact Social Impact Assessment study? Assessment study report include? A) To consider alternative places for land A) Consultation process documentation, acquisition land viability evaluation, and project B) To estimate the number of affected proposal families B) Assessment of public purpose, C) To study the social impacts of the project estimation of affected families, and D) To assess the impact of land impact analysis of the project acquisition on public purpose C) Analysis of environmental effects, estimation of displaced families, and land 2) Which entities should be consulted availability study during land acquisition for a public D) Study on social benefits, calculation of purpose? project costs, and plan for compensating affected families A) Concerned Panchayat, Municipality or Municipal Corporation 6) Where should the notification for B) District Collector, Sub-Divisional consultation and Social Impact Magistrate and Tehsil Assessment study be made available? C) Representatives of the Central Government A) In the local language to concerned D) The public in the affected areas entities and on government websites B) On social media platforms 3) What should be considered during a C) Only to District Collector, Sub- Social Impact Assessment study? Divisional Magistrate and Tehsil D) At least one month before land A) Environmental impact acquisition B) Impact on livelihoods, infrastructure, and public and community properties 7) Which component needs to be C) Fair price of land acquisition considered for ameliorative measures in D) Availability of local language translation the Social Impact Management Plan? 4) How long should the Social Impact A) Financial compensation for displaced Assessment study take to complete? families B) Livelihood of affected families and A) There is no specific time limit public/community properties B) Within six months from the C) Completion timeline of the acquisition commencement date project C) Within one year from the D) Number of trees to be planted in the commencement date affected area D) Until an alternate place for land acquisition is found 3  LARRA ACT,2013 Practice MCQ’s 8) What is one of the requirements for 11)Under what circumstances is a public the completion of a Social Impact hearing required for a Social Impact Assessment study? Assessment? A) Approval from representatives of A) Whenever a Social Impact Assessment Panchayat, Municipality or Municipal is required to be prepared Corporation B) Whenever the project involves land B) Publication of the study report to the acquisition public C) Only if the project serves a public C) Environmental Impact Assessment purpose study is carried out simultaneously D) Only if the potential benefits outweigh D) Completion of the ameliorative measures the social costs prior to the study 12) Who ensures that the Social Impact 9)How should the appropriate Assessment study report and the Social Government ensure adequate Impact Management Plan are made representation during the Social Impact available to the local authorities? Assessment study? A) The District Collector A) By consulting with community leaders in B) The Expert Group evaluating the report the affected area C) The appropriate Government B) By appointing external consultants for D) The Central Government impact assessment C) By selecting representatives from 13) In which areas should the Social affected families Impact Assessment study report be D) By involving representatives from published? Panchayat, Gram Sabha, Municipality or Municipal Corporation. A) The government offices B) The main city areas 10)What are some assets and C) The affected areas infrastructure properties likely to be D) The areas unaffected by the project affected by proposed land acquisition? 14) Which agency receives a copy of the A) Schools, hospitals, and marketplaces Social Impact Assessment report when an B) Roads, public transport, drainage, and Environment Impact Assessment is sources of drinking water carried out? C) Electricity supply, anganwadis, and burial grounds A) Expert Group constituted by the D) Post offices, food storage godowns, and appropriate Government farmlands B) Sub-Divisional Magistrate C) Impact Assessment Agency authorised by the Central Government 4  LARRA ACT,2013 Practice MCQ’s D) District Collector C) Recommend the project be modified to reduce social costs 15) In which case do the provisions of this D) Recommend that the project be Act relating to Social Impact Assessment abandoned and not acquire any more not apply? land A) Irrigation projects requiring 19) What should the Expert Group do if Environment Impact Assessment under they believe the potential benefits of a another law project outweigh its social costs? B) Projects serving a public purpose C) Projects with minimal social costs A) Recommend that the project be D) Projects with no potential benefits abandoned and not acquire any more land B) Recommend the extent of land 16) Who evaluates the Social Impact proposed for acquisition and alternative Assessment report? options C) Suggest more displacing options for land A) The local Panchayat or Municipality acquisition B) An independent multi-disciplinary D) Recommend that the social costs be Expert Group reduced before proceeding C) Social scientists employed by the appropriate Government 20) Who is responsible for examining D) The District Collector proposals for land acquisition and the Social 17) What is one of the requirements for Impact Assessment report? the Expert Group evaluating the Social Impact Assessment report? A) The affected families B) The appropriate Government A) Social worker C) The Central Government B) Technical expert in the subject D) The Expert Group relating to the project C) Economist 21) What factors must be considered by D) Political representative the appropriate Government while examining proposals for land acquisition? 18) What should the Expert Group do if they believe the social costs of a project A) Existing infrastructure, ecological impact, outweigh its potential benefits? and individual opinions B) Minimum displacement of people, A) Recommend that the appropriate minimum disruption of services, Government proceed with the acquisition and environmental impact B) Suggest alternative options for land C) Legitimate and bonafide public acquisition purpose, social costs and adverse social impacts 5  LARRA ACT,2013 Practice MCQ’s D) Feasibility of the project, financial costs, 25) What does the appropriate and job opportunities Government do with unutilized previously acquired land? 22) What is done with the decision of the appropriate Government after examining A) Abandon the acquisition of unutilized the proposal? land B) Use it for the same public purpose or A) Uploaded on the Central Government's make recommendations regarding its website usage B) Panchayat or Municipality decides its C) Sell it to private developers for implementation commercial purposes C) Sent to the Expert Group for further D) Transfer the ownership to the Expert evaluation Group D) Made available in local language to relevant authorities and published in 26) Who ensures whether the required affected areas prior consent of the affected families has been obtained for land acquisition? 23) When can the Social Impact Assessment study be exempted? A) The local Panchayat or Municipality B) The District Collector A) When land acquisition is proposed C) The Expert Group evaluating the invoking urgency provisions proposal B) If the affected families provide their D) The appropriate Government prior consent C) If the project shows significant potential 27) Under which circumstances can benefits irrigated multi-cropped land be acquired? D) If land acquisition is required for industrial projects A) Subject to the condition of compensating the owner adequately. 24) What does the appropriate B) Without any restrictions. Government ensure regarding the C) Only under exceptional circumstances proposed land acquisition? and as a demonstrable last resort. D) For any projects in a district or state. A) Acquiring only the minimum area of land required for the project 28) What should be done when multi- B) Acquiring unutilized lands in the same crop irrigated land is acquired? region C) Acquiring land as recommended by the A) Leave the land vacant for future use. Expert Group B) Develop an equivalent area of D) Acquiring additional land for future cultivable wasteland for agricultural projects purposes or deposit an amount equivalent to the value of the land for 6  LARRA ACT,2013 Practice MCQ’s investment in agriculture. partnership. C) Convert the land into an industrial site. C) All industrial projects developed by the D) Sell the land to the highest bidder. State Government. D) Afforestation projects and wildlife 29) What is the maximum limit for conservation areas. agricultural land acquisition in a district or state? 32) What is the condition for exempting projects in Maharashtra? A) 5% of the total net sown area of that district or state. A) Projects should ensure employment B) No limits, it can be acquired without any generation for locals. restrictions. B) No condition, projects can be exempted C) 10% of the total land area in the district without any limitations. or state. C) The State Government must evaluate the D) The total net sown area of that district social impact of the project. or state as notified by the appropriate D) The State Government needs to ensure Government. that the extent of land for the proposed acquisition is minimum and necessary for 30) Which projects are exempted from the project. the provisions of this Act? 33) In Andhra Pradesh, what is the extent A) Rural infrastructure projects including of land that can be acquired for an electrification. industrial corridor? B) Industrial estates and areas set up by the State Government. A) Up to one kilometer on both sides of C) All infrastructure projects developed by designated railway lines or roads. the State Government. B) Up to five kilometers on both sides of D) Linear projects like railways, designated railway lines or roads. highways, major district roads, irrigation C) Only the specific area identified for canals, and power lines. construction. 31) Under State Amendments, which D) No limit, entire district or state can be projects can be exempted from this Act in acquired for an industrial corridor. Andhra Pradesh? 34) Apart from agriculture, what other A) Electricity and water supply purpose can be served when multi- infrastructure projects. cropped land is acquired? B) Projects vital to national security or defense, preparation for defense, rural A) Enhancing food-security through infrastructure, affordable housing, investment in agriculture with the value industrial corridors, and infrastructure of the land acquired. projects under public-private B) Creating recreational parks for the public. 7  LARRA ACT,2013 Practice MCQ’s C) Building residential colonies for Collector offices government employees. C) In the Official Gazette, in two daily D) Developing shopping malls and office newspapers, in the local language in complexes. Panchayat or Municipality offices D) In the Official Gazette, in three daily 35) What are considered as exceptional newspapers, in the local language in circumstances for acquiring irrigated Panchayat or Municipality offices multi-cropped land? 38) Who should be informed of the A) Cases where the landowner willingly preliminary notification of land agrees to sell the land. acquisition? B) Situations where there is surplus agricultural land in the district. A) Journalists, Publishers, and Writers C) Instances where there is a risk of floods B) District Collectors, Sub-divisional or natural calamities. Magistrates, and Tehsils D) Cases where it is a demonstrable last C) Doctors, Engineers, and Lawyers resort and no other viable alternatives D) Gram Sabha or Sabhas, municipalities, exist. and Autonomous Councils 36) What should the State Government 39) What information should be included consider before exempting projects from in the notification issued under section (1)? this Act? A) Nature of public purpose, reasons A) The State Government should necessitating displacement, summary of consider the minimum land required for Social Impact Assessment Report, the proposed project. particulars of Administrator B) The political significance and support for B) Nature of public purpose, reasons the project. necessitating relocation, summary of Social C) The ease of land acquisition process for Impact Assessment Report, particulars of the project. Accountant D) The financial viability and profit C) Nature of private purpose, reasons potential of the project. necessitating resettlement, summary of Social Impact Assessment Report, 37) In what manner should the particulars of Engineer preliminary notification of land D) Nature of public purpose, reasons acquisition be published? necessitating displacement, summary of Environmental Impact Assessment Report, A) In the Official Gazette, in two daily particulars of Administrator newspapers, in English in Panchayat or Municipality offices 40) During the provisions under this B) In the Official Gazette, in two monthly Chapter, can a person make any magazines, in the local language in District transaction or create encumbrances on 8  LARRA ACT,2013 Practice MCQ’s the notified land? 44) At what stage will the officer authorised under section 12 pay for any A) Yes, after providing compensation and damage rehabilitation caused? B) Yes, if the person is in urgent need of funds A) At the time of conducting a public C) Yes, but with permission from the hearing Collector B) At the time of entry under section 12 D) No C) At the time of issuing the notification under sub-section (1) 41) What is the time frame for the D) At the time of submitting the Collector to complete the exercise of Rehabilitation and Resettlement scheme updating land records after issuing the notice? 45) What happens if a preliminary notification is not issued within twelve A) Six months months after the submission of Social B) Three months Impact Assessment report? C) Two months D) One month A) A fresh Social Impact Assessment is required to be conducted 42) Under what circumstances can the B) The report will be deemed to have period of twelve months for issuing the lapsed declaration be extended? C) The report will be reviewed by a different committee A) If circumstances exist justifying the D) An extension of time will be same automatically granted B) If the Collector decides to extend it C) Without any justification or reason 46) What can a person object to within D) Only if all affected families agree to the sixty days from the publication of the extension preliminary notification? 43) For what purpose shall officers A) Area and suitability of land, reason authorised by the appropriate for public purpose, findings of the Social Government enter and survey the land? Impact Assessment report B) Area and size of hospitals, water A) To take possession of the land availability, findings of the archaeological B) To interview potential buyers of the land study C) To evaluate agricultural productivity of C) Area and condition of roads, population the land density, findings of the court judgment D) To determine the extent of land to be D) Area and location of schools, climate acquired conditions, findings of the traffic survey 9  LARRA ACT,2013 Practice MCQ’s 47) Who is responsible for conducting a notice for land acquisition? survey and census of the affected families? A) Intention to lease the land, contact A) Collector information for potential buyers B) Gram Sabha B) Intention to take possession of the land, C) Local Municipal Corporation claim to compensation and rehabilitation D) Administrator for Rehabilitation and C) Intention to build a market, legal citation Resettlement of land acquisition laws D) Intention to sell the land, details of 48) What details should be included in recent construction activities the draft Rehabilitation and Resettlement Scheme? 51) What does the Collector enquire into on the day fixed for the objections? A) Particulars of land owners, livelihoods lost, affected public utilities and A) Objections to measurements, value of infrastructural facilities land, and respective interests of claimants B) Particulars of political affiliations, age B) Objections to administrative delays, distribution, affected museums and art political affiliations of claimants, social galleries impact on villages C) Particulars of criminal records, education C) Objections to land condition, nutritional levels, affected shopping malls and theaters status of claimants, opinions of intellectuals D) Particulars of bank accounts, number of D) Objections to qualifications of surveyors, furniture lost, affected roads and bridges appraisal of land value, compensation offered 49) How should the approved Rehabilitation and Resettlement Scheme 52) What does the Collector include in be made public? the award under section 23? A) Displayed in public squares, posted at A) Development potential of the land, tax railway stations, shared on social media liabilities on the land, and segregation of B) Published in local language, offices of cost-sharing among claimants collectors and municipalities, uploaded B) True area of the land, compensation on for the land, and apportionment of government website compensation among claimants C) Published in English, national C) Type of ownership rights, probable newspapers, uploaded on collector's income from alternate uses of the land, and personal website profit-sharing between government and D) Sent by mail to affected households, claimants displayed in cricket stadiums, shared via D) Suggested area of the land, future email appreciation value of the land, and default compensation rate 50) What should be included in the public 10  LARRA ACT,2013 Practice MCQ’s 53) Within what period should the determining the market value, what Collector make an award for the factor should not be taken into acquisition of land? consideration? A) 6 months B) 24 months A) Price paid for land acquired on earlier C) 18 months occasion in the district. D) 12 months B) Price paid for non-agricultural assets attached to the land 53) Under what circumstances can the C) Price paid for crops, plantations, and appropriate Government extend the trees on the land period for making an award? D) Price paid as compensation for social impact across the region A) Delay in proceedings B) Public protest 57) What must the market value C) Existence of justifying circumstances calculated as per section 26(1) be D) Government intervention multiplied by? 54) What criteria should the Collector A) Factor specified in the First Schedule adopt in assessing the market value of the B) Factor agreed upon by interested parties land? C) Factor determined by a government economist A) Independent valuation, transparency, and D) Factor based on market supply and comparable sales demand B) Quality rating, cash discounts, and capital investment 58) According to section 29(1), who C) Indian Stamp Act, average sale price, should the Collector use to determine the and consented amount of compensation market value of building and other D) Rectangular survey, market demand, and immovable property attached to the land? equitable appraisal A) Real estate agent or property appraiser 55) According to Explanation 1 of section B) Competent engineer or specialist 26(b), how many years of sale deeds C) Land developer or project manager should be taken into account for D) Civil engineer or architectural consultant determining the average sale price of land? 59) In case of multiple displacements, what additional compensation should be A) One year paid to the affected family? B) Four years C) Two years A) Additional 25% compensation D) Three years B) Equivalent to compensation determined under the Act 56) Explanation 3 states that while C) Additional 50% compensation 11  LARRA ACT,2013 Practice MCQ’s D) Additional 10% compensation B) Rehabilitation and resettlement amount, bank account number, house site, 60) Under what circumstances can the land allotted, one-time allowances, and acquisition of land be deemed urgent? employment provisions C) Rehabilitation and resettlement ratio, A) Economic expansion, urban legal aid benefits, community development redevelopment, and infrastructure allocations, and minority protection clauses improvement D) Rehabilitation and resettlement resources, B) Judicial review, legal settlement, and cultural heritage considerations, economic constitutional interpretation impact assessments, and governance C) Defence of India, national security, mechanisms emergencies, and natural calamities D) Social development projects, welfare 64) What material does the appropriate programs, and cultural preservation Government have the power to call for in order to review the legality or propriety 61) What is the minimum notice period of proceedings? that the Collector should give before taking possession of a building under A) Justifications for acquisition, public section 40(2)? feedback, and government appraisals B) Project plans, environmental studies, and A) 24 hours cost-benefit analysis B) 1 week C) Any record of proceedings C) 72 hours D) Expert opinions, impact assessments, D) 48 hours and compensation estimates 62) Before taking possession of any land, 65) According to section 37(1), what are what percentage of compensation must the Awards filed by the Collector final the Collector tender to the person entitled and conclusive evidence of? to it? A) True area and market value of the A) 80% land, assets attached thereto, solatium, B) 60% and C) 70% apportionment of compensation D) 90% B) Economic growth potential and future market trends 63) What is included in the Rehabilitation C) Market demand and fair price and Resettlement Award under section determination 31(2)? D) Value-added improvements and development potential A) Rehabilitation and resettlement process, compensation details, infrastructure plans, 66) How soon should the Collector ensure and building inspections that full payment of compensation and 12  LARRA ACT,2013 Practice MCQ’s rehabilitation entitlements are made or five years tendered to entitled persons? B) It is not included in the Development Plan A) Eighteen months for compensation, C) It can be done at any time after land twelve months for monetary part of acquisition rehabilitation entitlements D) It is the responsibility of the Gram Sabha B) Six months for compensation, three or Panchayats months for monetary part of rehabilitation entitlements 70) How much compensation amount due C) Twelve months for compensation, to the affected families belonging to the eighteen months for monetary part of Scheduled Castes or the Scheduled rehabilitation entitlements Tribes must be paid initially? D) Three months for compensation, six months for monetary part of A) None of the compensation amount due rehabilitation entitlements B) At least one-third of the compensation amount due 67) Who can direct the Collector to take C) The entire compensation amount due possession of land needed for a public D) Half of the compensation amount due purpose in cases of urgency? 71) In case of relocation of the affected A) The appropriate Government Scheduled Tribes outside the district, B) The Requiring Body what additional benefits are they entitled C) The Governor to? D) The Collector A) Twenty-five per cent rehabilitation 68) In case of acquisition or alienation of and resettlement benefits and fifty land in the Scheduled Areas, whose thousand rupees consent must be obtained? B) Fifty per cent compensation amount and one lakh rupees A) The State Government C) Free transportation to their new location B) The Land Acquisition Officer D) No additional benefits C) concerned Gram Sabha or the Panchayats or the autonomous District 72) Which benefits shall continue to be Councils available to the Scheduled Tribes and E) The Central Government Scheduled Castes in the resettlement area? 69) What is the provision for A) No benefits development of alternate fuel, fodder, B) Only financial benefits and non-timber forest produce resources C) Educational benefits in the Development Plan? D) All benefits, including reservation benefits A) It should be done within a period of 13  LARRA ACT,2013 Practice MCQ’s 73) Who supervises the formulation and 77) Who can appoint the Presiding implementation of rehabilitation and Officer of the Land Acquisition, resettlement schemes? Rehabilitation and Resettlement Authority? A) Presiding Officer of the Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation, and A) Appropriate Government Resettlement Authority B) The Chief Justice of a High Court B) Administrator for Rehabilitation and C) The Commissioner for Rehabilitation Resettlement and Resettlement C) Commissioner for Rehabilitation and D) The National Monitoring Committee Resettlement D) District Collector 79) What powers does the Authority have for its functions under this 74) Who is the chairperson of the Act? Rehabilitation and Resettlement Committee on the project level? A) Same powers as are vested in a civil court under the Code of Civil A) Collector Procedure, 1908 B) Commissioner for Rehabilitation and B) No powers Resettlement C) The power to issue regulations C) Panchayat Chairperson D) The power to appoint administrators D) Member of Parliament 80) Who has original jurisdiction to 75) What should not be permitted if adjudicate upon every reference made rehabilitation and resettlement are not under section 64 of the Act? complied with in full? A) The District Judge A) Project completion B) Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation, and B) Compensation payment Resettlement Authority C) Land acquisition C) The Commissioner for Rehabilitation D) Land use change and Resettlement D) The appropriate Government 76) Which authority provides speedy disposal of disputes relating to land 81) What is the time frame for the acquisition and compensation? Authority to deliver copies of the award to the parties concerned? A) Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Authority A) One week B) The Commissioner for Rehabilitation B) One month and Resettlement C) Ninety days C) The District Collector D) Fifteen days D) The State Government 14  LARRA ACT,2013 Practice MCQ’s 82) Who can constitute the National D) Anyone involved in land acquisition Monitoring Committee for rehabilitation disputes. and resettlement? 86) Which court has jurisdiction to A) State Government entertain land acquisition disputes? B) The District Collector C) The Chief Justice of a High Court A) High Court under article 226 or D) Central Government article 227 of the Constitution or the Supreme Court. 83) What happens if any person other B) The Authority established by this Act. than a specified person purchases land C) District Courts empowered by the Code through private negotiations without of Criminal Procedure. complying with Rehabilitation and D) Any civil court except the High Court or Resettlement Scheme? Supreme Court. A) The purchase of land shall be void 87) When can a person require that a B) The person will be fined heavily matter be referred to the Authority? C) The land will be reserved for public use D) The person will be directed to comply A) At any time within six weeks after the with the scheme award is announced. B) Only if the objection is in regard to the 84) What is the judicial significance of amount of compensation. proceedings before the Authority? C) If the person has not accepted the award. A) They are deemed to be administrative D) Immediately after the award is proceedings. announced. B) They are deemed to be judicial proceedings. 88) What must the application to refer a C) They are deemed to be legislative matter to the Authority state? proceedings. D) They are deemed to be executive A) The name of the person making the proceedings. application. B) The grounds on which objection to the 85) Who are considered public servants award is taken. in the context of the Authority? C) A detailed history of the land acquisition process. A) The Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860). D) The specific provisions under this Act B) People who receive compensation under being referenced. this Act. C) The Member and officers of the 89) Which statement is not required in Authority. the Collector's statement to the Authority? 15  LARRA ACT,2013 Practice MCQ’s A) The location and extent of the land. 93) What parameters and provisions B) The grounds on which the amount of should be considered when determining compensation was determined. compensation? C) The compensation awarded to each A) Provisions under Chapter VI of this Act. person. B) Parameters based on the market value of D) The names of all persons interested in the land. the land. C) Parameters under sections 26 to 30 and provisions under Chapter V of this 90) Who is served notice when the Act. Authority has to determine a dispute? D) Parameters determined by the Collector's initial award. A) Only the Collector who made the original award. 94) In addition to market value, what B) The applicant, interested persons not additional amount is awarded as agreeing to receive compensation, and the compensation? Collector (if objection is regarding land area or compensation amount). A) An amount calculated at the rate of C) Anyone who may be affected by the twelve per cent. per annum. Authority's decision. B) An amount specified in the preliminary D) Only the applicants making the objection. notification. C) An amount determined at the authority's 91) What is the scope of the enquiry in discretion. land acquisition dispute proceedings? D) A fixed percentage of the market value. A) Consideration of the interest of the 95) What constitutes an award under this persons affected by the objection. Act? B) Developing a plan for rehabilitation and resettlement. A) A verbal announcement of the C) Determining fault and assigning blame. compensation to be paid. D) Estimating the potential value of the B) The publication of a preliminary acquired land. notification. C) A written document specifying the 92) Who can appear and act in land awarded amounts and the grounds for acquisition dispute proceedings? each amount. D) A detailed report on the land acquisition A) All persons entitled to practice in any process. Civil Court in the State. B) Only the parties involved in the dispute. 96) How are costs incurred in land C) Only government officials and acquisition dispute proceedings employees of the Authority. determined? D) Only lawyers specifically qualified in land acquisition law. 16  LARRA ACT,2013 Practice MCQ’s A) By the Authority in the award, based possession of the land. on the collectiveness' claim and C) Sixty days from the date of the award. negligence. D) Three months from the date of the award. B) By dividing the total costs equally among all persons involved. 100) Under what circumstances can the C) By assessing the costs of legal appropriate Government occupy and use representation for each party involved. any waste or arable land temporarily? D) By allowing each party to submit claims for reimbursement. A) When the land is not being utilized B) When it is needed for any public 97) When may the collector be directed to purpose pay interest on excess compensation? C) When the land is unfit for cultivation D) When the Collector decides to procure it A) When the Collector delays payment or deposition of compensation. 101)What is the maximum duration of B) When the Authority determines that temporary occupation and use of the land? the Collector should have awarded more compensation. A) Indefinitely C) When the claimant provides evidence of B) Five years financial hardship. C) One year D) When the government requests D) Three years reimbursement for additional expenses. 102)Who decides on the compensation to 98) Who can require the redetermination be paid for the occupation and use of the of compensation based on an Authority's land? award? A) Authority A) Any person who disagreed with the B) Landowner Collector's initial award. C) Collector B) Persons interested in land covered by D) Government the same preliminary notification. C) Only those who filed an application with 103)What happens at the expiration of the Collector. the term of occupancy? D) Only those who were present at the Authority's hearing. A) The occupants can extend their occupation without payment 99) What is the time limit for filing an B) The government acquires the land appeal to the High Court? permanently C) The Collector takes permanent A) Ninety days from the date of filing the possession of the land application. D) Compensation is paid for any damage B) One year from the date on which taking done to the land and it is returned to the 17  LARRA ACT,2013 Practice MCQ’s owners D) A warning and compensation refund 104) In case of a difference in 108) Who will be deemed guilty if an compensation between the Collector and offence under this Act is committed by a the persons interested, who decides on company? the sufficiency of the compensation? A) Company shareholders A) Collector B) Person in charge of the company's B) Authority conduct and responsible to the company C) Court C) Requiring Body D) Government D) Employees involved in the offence 109) What is the punishment for the 105) What is the punishment for person in charge of a company's conduct providing false information or producing if a company commits an offence under false documents in connection with land this Act? acquisition? A) Proceeded against and punished A) Cancellation of land acquisition accordingly B) Community service as punishment B) Financial penalty on the company C) Imprisonment up to six months or a C) Immediate termination of employment fine up to one lakh rupees, or both D) Acquisition of the company's assets D) A warning and probation 110) Who will be deemed guilty if an 106) Who can draw up disciplinary offence under this Act is committed by a proceedings against a government government department? servant found guilty of mala fide actions under this Act? A) Officer responsible for the offence B) Employees of the department A) Appropriate Government C) Minister in charge of the department B) Collector D) Head of the department C) Disciplinary authority D) Authority 111) What is the requirement for a court to take cognizance of any offence under 107) What is the penalty for contravening this Act committed by a Requiring Body? the provisions of the Act relating to payment of compensation or A) Approval by the appropriate Government rehabilitation and resettlement? B) Complaint in writing made by the Collector or authorised officer or A) Cancellation of land acquisition affected family member B) Up to three years of imprisonment or C) Evidence provided by the affected family a fine, or both member C) Ineligibility for future land acquisition D) Approval by the Head of the department 18  LARRA ACT,2013 Practice MCQ’s 111)In case the Collector is faced with A) The Ministry of Law opposition or impediment while taking B) The Central Government possession of land, how can the surrender C) The appropriate Government of land be enforced? D) The State Government A) By proceeding legally against the 116)What is the purpose of the social landowner impact assessment study mentioned in B) By applying to a Magistrate or the Act? Commissioner C) By convincing the head of the A) To conduct a census of the affected area department B) To finalize the compensation package D) By seeking help from the local police C) To determine the market value of the land 112) How is a notice under this Act D) To assess the social impact of the generally served? project A) By sending a registered mail 117) What is the minimum size of the B) By posting on social media constructed house provided under the C) By delivering or tendering a copy to Indira Awas Yojana in rural areas? the concerned person D) By publishing it in newspapers A) Not less than 50 sqmts B) Not less than 100 sqmts 113) Under what circumstances shall the C) Not less than 75 sqmts appropriate Government be at liberty to D) Not less than 25 sqmts withdraw from the acquisition of any land? 118)What is the equivalent cost of the house offered in lieu of a constructed A) If compensation cannot be decided house in rural areas? B) If possession has not been taken C) If land value increases significantly A) Double the market value of the land D) If owners are not willing to sell B) The value of assets attached to land or building 114) What is the maximum period of time C) One lakh fifty thousand rupees for which any land acquired under this D) The market value of the land Act can remain unutilized? A) Ten years 119)How much financial assistance is B) Indefinitely given to affected families in urban areas C) Two years for house construction if they opt not to D) Five years take the offered house? 115)Who has the power to create rules A) Not less than one crore rupees for carrying out the provisions of this Act? B) Not less than fifty thousand rupees C) Not less than two lakh rupees 19  LARRA ACT,2013 Practice MCQ’s D) Not less than one lakh fifty thousand D) Housing units, land for land, or cash rupees compensation 120)What is the minimum amount of 124) How long is the monthly subsistence land to be allotted to each affected family allowance provided to each affected owning agricultural land in the command family for a period of displacement? area of an irrigation project? A) Indefinitely A) Five acres B) Two years B) One acre C) One year C) Two acres D) Six months D) Half an acre 125)What is the amount of one-time 121) What amount of land will be financial assistance provided for provided to persons belonging to transportation cost for shifting of the Scheduled Castes or Scheduled Tribes displaced family's belongings? who lose land in a project? A) Twenty-five thousand rupees A) The land acquired or two and a half B) One lakh rupees acres, whichever is lower C) Fifty thousand rupees B) One acre D) Ten thousand rupees C) Five acres D) Ten acres 126)What is the maximum one-time financial assistance provided to each 122)What percentage of developed land is affected family for construction of cattle reserved and offered to land owning shed or petty shop? project affected families for urbanization purposes? A) Five thousand rupees B) Fifteen thousand rupees A) Twenty percent C) Depends on the notification by the B) Seventy-five percent appropriate Government C) Ten percent D) One lakh rupees D) Fifty percent 127)What is the one-time financial 123)What options are provided to the assistance provided to affected families of affected families in terms of artisans, small traders, and self-employed compensation for displacement? persons? A) Housing units or cash compensation A) Twenty-five thousand rupees B) Employment, onetime payment, or B) Fifty thousand rupees annuity C) Depends on the notification by the C) Land for land or annuity appropriate Government 20  LARRA ACT,2013 Practice MCQ’s D) One lakh rupees D) Rights on non-timber forest produce and common property resources 128)What facilities must be provided for resettlement of the displaced population? 130) Who should bear the stamp duty and registration fee for the land or house A) Safe drinking water and grazing land allotted to the affected families? B) Public transport and sanitation facilities C) Roads and drainage A) The affected families D) All of the above B) The Requiring Body C) The State Government 129) What additional rights should forest D) The Central Government dweller families be provided with if they lose their land due to acquisition? 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