(1) After the receipt of application, the competent authority shall ask the applicant to deposit eighty percent amount of preliminary estimated compensation.
(2) After payment of such amount as demanded under sub-rule (1), the competent authority shall declare his intention by notification in the official gazette in Form B that in the public interest the acquisition of right of user is necessary to lay the Water, Gas or Drainage Pipelines. This notification shall be published and affixed in the following places as well as in the official Gazette:-
(a) on the notice board of the office of the Collector;
(b) on the notice board of the office of the Competent Authority;
(c) in the daily news papers circulated in that locality from which one shall be in Hindi.
(3) The Competent Authority shall serve the notice to the landowner / occupier regarding the acquisition of right of user in private land. The notice in Form-C may be served :-
(a) in person to the land owner/ occupier; or
(b) in person to any adult person of family of land owner/ occupier; or
(c) by registered post to land owner / occupier; and
(d) by pasting notice on the house or his last known residence of the land owner/ occupier.