Ownership of land acquired under CNT, SPT Acts in J'khand will

The Jharkhand government today decided that even after land acquired under the Chhotanagpur Tenancy Act (CNT) and the Santhal Pargana Tenancy Act (SPT) for development projects, the ownership will remain with the land owner.
This decision was taken at a cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Raghubar Das, officials said.
Now under section 13 of the SPT Act would be written as "for non-agriculture purposes of agriculture land, the ownership and title of the riyat (owner) will remain intact as it was before enactment of the present amendment as it was originally in the SPT act 1949."
A similar clarification has been made under the CNT Act's section 21, the officials said.

They said after these amendments, the ownership and title of the original tribal land would not change even if it was used for developmental work.
Similarly, in section 49 (1) of the CNT Act sub-section C has been added, which empowers the government to use tribal land for government welfare programmes like road construction, canal, water pipe line, schools, colleges, panchayat buildings, Anganwadi centres and health centres, besides earlier provision for mining and industries.
In addition to the above, section 49(2) has also been added in the CNT Act, which clarifies that in case of land transfer under section 49(1) A B and C of the CNT Act, if the land was not used for five years for the given purposes it would be restored to the original owner.

It has also been clarified that the compensation awarded during the transfer of land would not be taken back.