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THE ODISHA LAND RIGHTS TO SLUM DWELLERS ACT, 2017
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREAMBLE :
SECTIONS : CHAPTER I
PRELIMINARY
1. Short title, extent and commencement.
2. Definitions.
CHAPTER II
LAND RIGHTS
3. Land right to slum dweller.
4. Redevelopment of slums..
5. Abatement of proceedings.
CHAPTER III
AUTHORITY AND PROCEDURE
FOR SETTLEMENT OF LAND RIGHTS
6. Urban Area Slum Redevelopment
and Rehabilitation Committee.
7. Conduct of Business of the Committee.
8. Appeal.
CHAPTER IV
OFFENCES AND PENALTIES
9. Penalty for contravention of the provision.
CHAPTER V
MISCELLENEOUS
10. Urban Poor Welfare Fund.
11. Protection of action taken against good faith.
12. Nodal Agency.
13.Power to remove difficulties.
14. Bar of jurisdiction of Civil Court.
15. Cognizance of Offence.
16. Power to make rules.
17. Effect of other laws.
18. Repeal and savings.
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EXTRAORDINARY
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
No. 1652 , CUTTACK, MON DAY , OCTOBER 16 , 2017 / ASWINA 24 , 1939
LAW DEPARTMENT
NOTIFICATION
The 16th October, 2017
No.11055–I-Legis-20/2017/L.—The following Act of the Odisha Legislative
Assembly having been ass ented to by the Governor on the 16th October , 2017 is hereby
published for general information.
ODISHA ACT 10 OF 2017
THE ODISHA LAND RIGHTS TO SLUM DWELLERS ACT, 2017
AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR ASSIGNING LAND RIGHTS TO IDENTIFIED SLUM
DWELLERS, FOR REDEV ELOPMENT, REHABILITATION AND UPGRADATION OF
SLUMS, AND FOR MATTERS CONNECTED THEREWITH OR INCIDENTAL
THERETO.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Odisha in the Sixty- eighth Year
of the Republic of India, as follows:—
CHAPTER I
PRELIMINARY
1. (1) This Act may be called the Odisha Land Rights to Slum Dwellers Act, 2017.
(2) It extends to urban areas in the whole of the State of Odisha.
(3) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 30th day of August, 2017.
2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, —
(a) “Authorised Officer” means the head of the Slum Redevelopment and
Rehabilitation Committee or any officer authorized by the State Government, by order, to
exercise powers as may be prescribed;
(b) “basic urban services” means services of drinking water supply, sanitation, drainage,
sewerage, solid waste disposal and street lighting;
Short title, extent
and
commencement.
Definitions.
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(c) “Collector” means the Collector of a dis trict and includes Additional District
Magistrate or any officer specially appointed by the State Government to perform the
functions of a Collector under this Act;
(d) “Committee” means the Urban Area Slum Redevelopment and Rehabilitation
Committee constituted under section 6;
(e) “EWS” means an economically weaker s ection beneficiary whose household
income is upto such limit as notified by the State Government, from time to time;
(f) “family” means husband, wife, unmarried son, unmarried daughter or any other person
related by blood and wholly dependent on the slum dweller;
(g) “Financial Institution” means any company possessing licence under the Banking
Regulation Act, 1949 to carry on banking business and includes a Housing Finance
Institution which has obtained certificate of registration under the National Housing
Bank Act, 1987;
(h) “Government land” means any land owned or acquired by the State Government or
its undertakings or the Municipal Council or the Notified Area Council, as the case
may be;
(i) “in-situ redevelopment” means the process of redevelopment of existing slum areas
by providing basic civic and infrastructural services to the slum dwellers, on the land
on which the slum is based;
(j) “landless person” means a person who is a citizen of India and does not own either in
his own name or in the name of any member of his family any house or land, or land
rights granted or inherited under this Act, in the urban area;
(k) “land right” means right to land assigned to slum dwellers under section 3;
(l) “member” means a member of the Committee or sub -committee, as the case may be ,
and includes the Chairperson;
(m) “occupation” means occupation of a land by a slum dweller for residential purposes;
(n) “prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
(o) “public interest” means land usage as prescribed under the city development
plan or zonal development plans under the approved city development plan or the
provision of basic urban services to public at large or prohibition of human habitation
in environmentally hazardous sites or ecologically sensitive sites or heritage sites;
(p) “redevelopment” means improvement to the existing slum by providing basic urban
services and facilitating i mprovement of housing conditions in accordance with the
housing scheme framed by the State Government, from time to time;
(q) “rehabilitation” means relocation of slum dwellers to other location in accordance with
the housing scheme framed by the State Government, from time to time;
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(r) “slum” or “slum area” means a compact settlement of at least twenty households with
a collection of poorly built tenements, mostly of temporary nature, crowded together
usually with inadequate sanitary and drinking water facilities in unhygienic conditions,
which may be on the State Government land in an urban area;
(s) “slum dweller” means any la ndless person in occupation within the limits of a slum
area;
(t) “tenable settlements” means the settlement as decided by the Committee, where
existence of human habitation does not entail undue risk to the safety or health or life
of the residents or habitation or such sites are not considered contrary to public interest
or the land is not required for any public or development purpose;
(u) “untenable settlements” means such areas where existence of human habitation entails
undue risk to the safety or health or life of the inhabitants themselves or where
habitation on such areas is considered by the Committee not to be in public interest;
(v) “urban area” means the area comprised within the limits of Municipal Council
and Notified Area Council constituted under the Odisha Municipal Act, 1950;
(w) Words and expressions used herein but not defined shall have the same meaning
as assigned to them under the Odisha Municipal Act, 1950.
CHAPTER II
LAND RIGHTS
3. (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other State law for the time being in force,
and subject to provisions of sub -section (2), every landless person , occupying land in a slum
in any urban area by such date as may be notified by the State Government, shall be entitled
for settlement of land and certific ate of land right shall be issued in accordance with the
provisions of this Act.
(2) The land shall be settled in favour of a slum dweller to the extent specified hereinafter,
namely: —
(a) A slum dweller shall be entitled to a land as nearly as may be,—
(i) where the slum is situated within the Municipal Council area, not exceeding
forty-five square meter;
(ii) where the slum is situated within the Notified Area Council area, not exceeding
sixty-square meter:
Provided that where a slum dweller is not getting in -situ settlement, in such
event the maximum limit of land in a relocation site shall not exceed thirty square
meter:
Provided further that where the slum dweller is in occupation of land in any
of the area mentioned in sub -clauses (i) or (ii) , less than the maximum area
mentioned therein, the land in actual occupation of such slum dweller shall be settled
accordingly.
(b) Where the slum dweller belongs to EWS category,—
(i) the land shall be settled free of cost; and
(ii) where settlement of land is made in excess of thirty square meter subject to
maximum limit fixed in clause (a), the cost of such excess land shall be
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calculated at such percentum of the benchmark value of land as may be
determined by the State Government, from time to time.
(c) where the slum dweller be longs to any category other than EWS, the land shall be
settled at such cost which shall be calculated at such percentum of the benchmark
value of the land, as may be determined by the State Government, from time to
time; and
(d) where a slum dweller occupies land beyond the maximum permissible limit provided
under clause (a) , he shall voluntarily vacate such excess land and the Authori sed
Officer shall take over the possession of such excess land before the issue of the
certificate of land right.
(3) The land so settled as per sub -section (1) shall be heritable but not transferable by sub -
lease, sale, gift, or any other manner whatsoever:
Provided that, the land so settled may be mortgaged for the purpose of raising finance in
the form of housing loan from any financial institution.
(4) The certificate of land right shall be issued jointly in the name of both the spouses in case
of married persons and in the name of single head in the case of a household headed by a single
person.
(5) If the slum dweller, with whom the land has been settled or right has been accrued for
allotment of any land under this Act, transfers such land except by way of mortgage under sub -
section (3) or uses the said land for any purpose other than residential purpose, the following
consequences shall follow, namely:—
(a) the certificate of land right issued under sub -section (1) shall stand automatically
cancelled;
(b) such transfer shall be null and void;
(c) no right shall accrue to the transferee in respect of such land;
(d) the Aut horized Officer shall dispossess the person who is in actual possession of
such land;
(e) such slum dweller shall be debarred from getting any land in future under this Act;
and
(f) such slum dweller shall be guilty of an offence under this Act.
(6) The slum dweller, with whom the land has been settled under this Act, shall not hold any
certificate of land right in any other urban area of the State and if he holds any such certificate, he
shall surrender all such certificates to the Authorised Officer in such manner as may be prescribed.
(7) If any slum dweller is found to have obtained more than one certificate of land rights by
way of misrepresentation of facts, the Authorised Officer shall, after giving reasonable
opportunity of being heard to the slum dweller, cancel all the certificate of land rights and, without
prejudice to the penalty that may be imposed under this Act, dispossess the person from such land.
(8) The evidence for grant of certificate of land right under sub-section (1) in favour of slum
dweller shall include —
(a) Government authorized documents such as Aadhaar Card, voter identity card,
ration card under National Food Security Act, 2013, smart card under Rashtriya
Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) or passport; or
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(b) Government records such as Cen sus, survey, maps, satellite imagery, plans, reports,
reports of committee s and commissions, Government orders, notifications,
circulars, resolutions.
(9) The certificate of land right granted under sub-section (1) shall be acceptable as evidence
for address proof of residence.
4. (1) Subject to the other provisions of this Act, the land rights conferred under sub-section
(1) of section 3 shall, as far as practicable, be provided in-situ and on as-is where-is basis:
Provided that, where the State Gover nment decides that the site has untenable settlements,
in such circumstances the slum dwellers shall be rehabilitated elsewhere:
Provided further that,—
(a) where, it is decided that the slum dweller shall be rehabilitated elsewhere, the said
site shall be utilized for any other purpose as the State Government may decide;
(b) where, after providing land in the existing slum to slum dweller, any land remains
surplus, the State Government may utilize such land for any purpose as it may decide.
(2) In the event of in -situ redevelopment, the applicable planning and building
regulations shall be applied, and wherever any relaxation is felt necessary for
implementation of the redevelopment plan, the same may be deemed to have been granted under
permissible deviation under the said regulations.
(3) During redevelopment of the slum area, transit space shall be provided to the slum
dwellers for such duration as may be necessary as provided under the housing scheme issued by
the State Government, from time to time.
5. All proceedings relating to eviction of slum dwellers pending on the ground of
unauthorized occupation before any authority or Court under any State law shall abate on
issue of certificate of land right under this Act.
CHAPTER III
AUTHORITY AND PROCEDURE FOR SETTLEMENT OF LAND RIGHTS
6. (1) For the purpose of this Act, the State Government shall, by notification, constitute a
Committee called the Urban Area Slum Redevelopment and Rehabilitation Committee for
each urban area with the name of such urban area, as it deems necessary and such
Committee shall have the authority to approve the list of persons on whom the land under
this Act shall be settled and shall exercise jurisdiction over the areas and exerc ise such
powers and functions as may be prescribed.
(2) Every Committee shall be headed by the Collector of the district and shall comprise
of such other members as may be prescribed.
(3) Without prejudice to the generality of powers and functions under sub -section (1),
the Committee shall,—
(a) undertake necessary surveys, undertake spatial mapping, fix the physical boundary of the
slums, identify eligible slum dwellers with community participation, prepare and publish
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the list of slum dwel lers to whom certificate of land right has been issued , in such
manner as may be prescribed; and
(b) for the purpose of facilitating the implementation of the pr ovisions of this Act and rules
framed thereunder, constitute such sub-committee for each slum area or cluster of slums,
comprising of such number of members as may be specified by the Committee.
(4) For the purpose of efficient functioning of the Committee, the State Government
shall provide such officers and employees as may be notified, from time to time.
7. The procedure and conduct of business and functions of the Committee shall be such
as may be prescribed.
8. (1) Subject to such rules as may be made, an appeal from any decision or order made
under this Act shall lie to such officer as may be appointed by the State Government.
(2) Every appeal , preferred under this section, shall be heard and disposed of in such
manner as may be prescribed.
(3) Every order passed by the Appellate Authority under this section shall be final.
CHAPTER IV
OFFENCES AND PENALTIES
9. Whoever contravenes the provisions of sub-sections (5) and (6) of section 3 or fails to
comply with any notice or order issued under this Act or rules made thereunder, shall be
punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to one
year or with fine, which may extend to twenty thousand rupees, or with both.
CHAPTER V
MISCELLANEOUS
10. (1) There shall be constituted a fund called the Urban Poor Welfare Fund at the
level of each urban local body to which the moneys received from the slum dweller s
under this Act shall be credited and in addition to the same, the following receipts may
also be credited to the said fund, namely:—
(a) contributions from the State Government and Central Government, if any;
(b) contributions from organizations, philanthropists, individuals and Non -Government
Organisations; and
(c) any other funding source as may be notified by the State Government.
(2) The constitution and administration of the fund shall be in such manner as may be
prescribed.
Explanation. — For the purpose of this section, the expression ‘urban local body’ means
the Municipal Council and Notified Area Council constituted under the Odisha Municipal
Act, 1950.
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11. No suit, prose cution or other legal proceedings shall lie against the State
Government or any officer or other employee of the State Government or the Committee or
any sub-committee constituted under this Act, which is, in good faith, done or intended to
be done under this Act.
12. The State Government or any officer or any Authority authorized by the State
Government in this behalf shall be the Nodal Agency for the implementation of the
provisions of this Act.
13. (1) If any difficulty arises in giving effe ct to the provisions of this Act, the State
Government may, by order published in the Official Gazette, make such provisions, not
inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, as may appear to it to be necessary or expedient
for the removal of the difficulty.
(2) Every order made under this section shall, as soon as may be after it is made, be laid
before the Odisha Legislative Assembly.
14. No civil court shall have jurisdiction to entertain any suit or proceeding in respect of
any matt er which the State Government or Committee constituted under this Act is
empowered by or under this Act to determine and no injunction shall be granted by any court
or other authority in respect of any action taken or to be taken in pursuance of any po wer
conferred by or under this Act.
15. (1) No court inferior to that of a Judicial Magistrate of First Class shall try any
offence punishable under this Act.
(2) No court shall take cognizance of any offence punishable under this Act, except
upon a complaint in writing made by the Authorised Officer or any officer of the State
Government or Committee, authorized by the State Government.
16. The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules to
carry out all or any of the provisions of this Act.
17. The provisions of this Act or rules made thereunder shall have effect
notwithstanding anything inconsistent therewith contained in any other State laws.
18.(1) The Odisha Land Right to Slum Dwel lers Ordinance, 2017 is hereby
repealed.
(2) Notwithstanding such repeal, anything done or any action taken under the
Ordinance, so repealed shall be deemed to have been done of taken under the
corresponding provisions of this Act.
By Order of the Governor
B.P.ROUTRAY
Principal Secretary to Government
Printed and published by the Director, Printing, Stationery and Publication,Odisha,Cuttack-10
Ex. Gaz. 980-173+280
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Bar of
jurisdiction
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Court.
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make rules.
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of 2017.
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of action
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against
good faith.
Effect of
other laws.
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of Offence.