(1) The Soil Conservation Officer shall prepare the draft scheme as required by sub-section (2) of section 5 and shall submit the same to the District Land Improvement Committee, which may either approve the draft scheme with or without modification or reject Power to enter upon lands to do certain acts.
Approval and publication of schemes.
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(2) After the draft scheme is approved by the District Land Improvement Committee, it shall be published in English, Hindi and Punjabi languages in the Official Gazette and also in the prescribed manner in every village and at the headquarters of the tahsil and district in which the lands included in the scheme are situated, and a copy thereof shall be affixed in the offices of the Panchayat, Panchayat Samiti and Zila Parishad concerned.
(3) As soon as the draft scheme is approved, the District Land Improvement Committee shall, appoint a person to be an Enquiry Officer.
8. The District Land Improvement Committee shall simultaneously with the publication of the draft scheme in the Official Gazette require all persons affected by the scheme to make, within thirty days of such publication any objections to the scheme or part thereof to the Enquiry Officer either in writing or by appearing personally before him.
9. The Enquiry Officer shall inquire into the objections received by him and submit them to the District Land Improvement Committee together with his report and recommendations thereon.
10. After considering the objections and the report and recommendations of the Enquiry Officer thereon and any further report which the District Land Improvement Committee may require from him, the District Land Improvement Committee may sanction the scheme, with or without modification or reject it:
Provided that the District Land Improvement Committee shall not sanction the scheme if the majority of the owners of the land included in the scheme, other than the Government, or the owners, other than the Government, owning in the aggregate more than fifty per centum of the land included in the scheme have objected to the making of the scheme.
Objections to Schemes.
Sanctioning of final scheme.
Enquiry into objections and report.
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11. The scheme as sanctioned under section 10 shall be published in the same manner as is provided in sub-section (2) of section 7 and on such publication shall be deemed to be final and shall come into force from the date of such publication in the Official Gazette.
12. For the purpose of carrying out a scheme which has come into force under section 11, the District Land Improvement Committee may, with the prior approval of the State Government, make regulations requiring any person or persons or the public generally to take certain action or to refrain from doing certain acts in respect of any matter included in the scheme or which may be supplementary or incidental to the scheme.
CHAPTER III EXECUTION OF SCHEMES
13. When a scheme comes into force under section 11, the Soil Conservation Officer shall proceed to execute the scheme.