(15) How is compensation determined?

The Act's sequence (narrate in order — the examination's procedural question): Initiation: the requiring (government) body applies; the Ministry/department decides acquisition for the stated public purpose; Preliminary notification: the public notice of intended acquisition (the publication: the site, extent, purpose), inviting objections — the affected persons' hearing and the purpose/ suitability re-examination; The officers' on-site work: the boundary demarcation, the amin's measurement, the records' verification (the kitta, the killa pillars), the crops/structures inventory; Valuation and the Compensation Determination Committee: the committee (the Chief District Officer's chair, with the land-revenue and requiring-body representation, per the Act's composition) fixing compensation — after summary inquiry into claims and values; Award and notice: the compensation decision published; the sums deposited/disbursed; Objection/appeal: the aggrieved owner's remedy — the complaint to the Ministry (the statutory valuation appeal) — alongside the purpose-and-procedure challenge (the judicial- review/writ route for procedural and public-purpose violations); Taking possession: upon compensation's payment/deposit — the land vests in the State; the structures' removal; the coercive eviction where possession withheld; The urgency powers: the Act's emergency provisions — the compressed notice/ compensation sequence for urgent public needs (the compensation right untouched, procedure truncated). The compensation's principles (the committee's and courts' method): Market value as the base — the price the land would fetch in open sale between willing parties at the notification's date (the…