JUDGMENT - B.N. DESHMUKH, J. :---Rule, returnable forthwith.

2. The land of the petitioner is acquired for Government Medical College at Nanded. Therefore, the petitioner wants a certificate as belonging to the category of Project Affected Person. The claim of the petitioner for the certificate is denied by the Collector, Nanded on the ground that the land of the petitioner is acquired for the purpose of Government Medical College and the same is not acquired for the purpose of project. Hence, he is held not entitled to have a certificate of Project Affected Person.

3. Our attention is invited to the definitions of "project" and, "affected person" under the Maharashtra Project Affected Persons Rehabilitation Act, 1986. The definition of "project" is given in sub-section (10) of section 2 of the said Act, which reads as under :---

""Project means,---

(a) an irrigation project, this is to say, the construction, extension, improvement or development of any work for the supply of water for the purpose of irrigation;

(b) a power project, that is to say, construction, extension, improvement or development of any work for the production or supply of electricity or any work conducive to electri

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