The Land Acquisition Act refers to India's legal framework for the government to forcibly acquire private land for public purposes, primarily the colonial-era Land Acquisition Act, 1894, which was replaced in 2013 by the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 (RFCTLARR Act), a more humane law focusing on higher compensation, mandatory social impact assessments (SIA), and comprehensive rehabilitation and resettlement (R&R) for di