3 Determination Compensation for Acquired Land

The valuation's principles (the committee's and courts' method):1. Market value as the base — the price the land would fetch in open sale between willing parties at the notification's date (comparable sales — the neighbouring transactions; the records' transaction prices);2. The statutory heads: the land itself; structures and improvements (the compensation for buildings, walls, plantations); crops; severance and injurious affection (the remaining land's depreciation — the corner-cut effects); disturbance (the moving costs, the business goodwill's displacement — within the Act's heads); the tenancy shares (the mohi's/tenant's separate compensation where registered interests subsist);3. The deductions/additions practice: appreciation-and-development potential debates; the classification by land-use (ghaderi/agricultural rates);4. The standards' critique (the marks-earning analysis): Nepal's chronic gap — compensation below replacement value; the delayed payments; the absence of resettlement benefits (the sectoral frameworks — hydropower/roads — supplementing with relief-and- resettlement packages); the Supreme Court's compensation jurisprudence pressing fair-market discipline against the committee's nominalism (Article 25(3)'s "basis of compensation" read to require realistic valuation — the Court's Article 25 line from Unit 1);5. The land-pooling and compensation-alternatives (the urban practice — the pool-and- return model: owners receiving serviced plots back after infrastructure's deduction — Kathmandu's road-widening era's experimentation).