Land Acquisition Compensation Calculator

The 2013 Act replaced the 1894 law's discretion with a formula: a market value fixed by the higher of three benchmarks, multiplied in rural areas by a factor the state notifies, plus the value of what stands on the land, plus a solatium of 100%, plus 12% a year for the time the acquisition takes, and then a separate schedule of rehabilitation and resettlement entitlements for every affected family. This page computes the award from those rules and cites the section or schedule item beside each line, for a landowner, a panchayat, a collector's office or a student reading the Act for the first time.

The land

Area acquired (hectares)

Area type

Circle rate under the Indian Stamp Act (₹ per hectare) Average of the highest 50% of registered sale prices for similar land in the nearest village or vicinity over the last three years (₹ per hectare) Consented amount, if acquisition is for a private company or PPP (₹ per hectare; 0 if none) Multiplication factor for rural land (1.00 to 2.00, as notified by the state for the distance from the urban area) Value of assets attached to the land: buildings, trees, wells, standing crops (₹)

Date of section 4(2) notification (social impact study)

Date of award or possession, whichever earlier

Base for the 12% additional amount

The affected family

Number of affected families

Family is displaced (loses its house)

Urban displaced family opts for cash in lieu of a house

Employment / one-time payment / annuity (item 3)

Discount rate for valuing the annuity (% a year)

Assumed CPI indexation (% a year)

Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe family in a Scheduled Area (additional ₹50,000 under item 4)

Loses a cattle shed or petty shop (item 6)

Artisan, small trader or self-employed, whose trade is affected (item 7)

Irrigation project: land for land in the command area (item 2), shown as a note

Where this page stops

It applies the Act as enacted by Parliament with the amounts in the First and Second Schedules. Several states have amended the Act, exempted categories of projects from the social impact assessment and consent requirements, or notified their own multiplication factors, and the Second Schedule permits states to set amounts above the minimums; the page takes the factor you enter and the central minimums for everything else. It does not compute the Scheduled Areas provisions in sections 41 and 42 beyond the item 4 addition, the section 46 private-purchase threshold, income-tax treatment (compensation under the Act is exempt under section 96), or interest on delayed payment under section 80. The authority is the award; this page is a calculator.