Works & Housing Department (Works Branch) has issued an addendum dated 18th March 2025 stating that in continuation to the Department’s Notification of even No. dated 28.11.2023 and in pursuance of the minutes of the Cabinet meeting issued vide No.CAB-1/14/2023 Dated 25.02.2025, the term 'henceforth’ contained in the above Notification has been defined as hereunder:

'Only those National Highway Projects in the State sanctioned by the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways (Administrative Approval, Technical Approval and Financial Sanction to the estimate of the work) and implemented after 28.11.2023 shall come under the purview of the Notification Dt. 28.11.2023 and will be entitled to land compensation and damage compensation'.

The Department has clarified that projects sanctioned prior to the issue of Notification Dated. 28.11.2023 will not come under the purview of the Notification as the policy of the State Government not to claim land compensation is clear.

 (DIPR)