It also favoured a single legislation for both land acquisition and rehabilitation of the displaced.
A Bill drafted in 2007 envisaged 30 per cent land for industrial projects -- if contiguity was a stumbling block -- being acquired by the state government.
Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee has refused to endorse any law that leaves the job of buying 70 per cent of the land to the private sector.
NAC, which met on Wednesday, also recommended that farmers must get six times the registered value of the land as compensation.
"If the land is resold, the farmer will get 25 per cent of the difference," said NAC member NC Saxena.
Two legislation, the Land Acquisition (Amendment) Bill 2009 and the Resettlement and Rehabilitation Bill, 2009, have been envisaged.
These, the prime minister has said, will be placed before Parliament in the monsoon session.
However, NAC has proposed modifications.
The new Bill will be called the National Development, Land Acquisition, Resettlement and Rehabilitation Act.
It will have several important features.
One, the proposed compensation is six times the registered sale deed value, including the solatium.
This will apply to government land as well.
The oustees will have the choice of getting compensation either in lump sum or annuities, according to the Bill. At least one person from each ousted family will be entitled to a job in the enterprise that comes up on their land.
NAC also said that acquisition should be permitted only for public purposes.
"This will be defined as acquisition necessary for strategic and infrastructural purposes, and for social services like education and health care", said a press release issued by NAC.
This means that the purpose for which land may be acquired has been narrowed.
The 2007 version said land could be acquired 'for any purpose useful to the general public if 70
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