https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=304724 Land acquisition for industrial development may constitute a public purpose, but the declaration fails where compensation is not genuinely funded from public revenues and the authority proceeds on an erroneous factual basis. Acquisition undertaken in substance for a company requires compliance with the mandatory Part VII procedure; use of the public-purpose route cannot avoid those requirements. Delegation of acquisition powers to a Commissioner remains valid where it implements prescribed legislative policy rather than transfers an essential legislative function, and a State law with Presidential assent prevails over inconsistent earlier Central law. Urgency powers cannot exclude Section 5-A unless the land satisfies the statutory condition of being waste or arable land and the authority forms a genuine, applied opinion. en-us Fri, 31 Jul 1964 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 20 Feb 2025 13:18:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=304724 Land acquisition for industrial development may constitute a public purpose, but the declaration fails where compensation is not genuinely funded from public revenues and the authority proceeds on an erroneous factual basis. Acquisition undertaken in substance for a company requires compliance with the mandatory Part VII procedure; use of the public-purpose route cannot avoid those requirements. Delegation of acquisition powers to a Commissioner remains valid where it implements prescribed legislative policy rather than transfers an essential legislative function, and a State law with Presidential assent prevails over inconsistent earlier Central law. Urgency powers cannot exclude Section 5-A unless the land satisfies the statutory condition of being waste or arable land and the authority forms a genuine, applied opinion. Case-Laws Indian Laws Fri, 31 Jul 1964 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=304724