The answer is: D
The correct option is D: 1, 2, 3 and 4.
According to the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 (RFCTLARR Act, 2013), the appropriate Government can acquire the land for any of the following purposes:
- For strategic purposes relating to naval, military, air force, and armed forces of the Union, including central paramilitary forces or any work vital to national security or defence of India or State police, safety of the people [Section 2(2)(a)]
- For infrastructure projects, which includes the following, namely:-
- project for water harvesting and water conservation structures, sanitation;
- project for project affected families;
- project for housing for such income groups, as may be specified from time to time by the appropriate Government;
- project for planned development or the improvement of village sites or any site in the urban areas or provision of land for residential purposes for the weaker sections in rural and urban areas;
- project for residential purposes to the poor or landless or to persons residing in areas affected by natural calamities, or to persons displaced or affected by reason of the implementation of any scheme undertaken by the Government, any local authority or a corporation owned or controlled by the State;
- project for any other public purpose as may be specified from time to time by the appropriate Government [Section 2(2)(b)]
- For any other public purpose, which includes the following, namely:—
- education, sports, health care, tourism, transportation or space programme;
- any infrastructure facility as may be notified in this regard by the Central Government in the Official Gazette, if the Central Government is satisfied that the project is in public interest [Section 2(2)(c)]
