(1) On receipt of an application the Allotting Authority shall immediately register it in a register to be maintained in his office in Form-IV and shall issue a receipt to the applicant in Form-V.
(2) The Allotting Authority shall scrutinise the applications and the affidavits annexed thereto and shall verify the particulars mentioned therein with reference to the relevant entries in the land record and shall conduct or get conducted such enquiry as he may consider necessary for finding the true state of facts mentioned in applications:
Provided that such scrutiny, verification and enquiry shall as far as possible be made at the Headquarters of the Colonisation Tehsil or Revenue Tehsil, in Which the land is situate.
(3) The Allotting Authority shall decide the applications received in pursuance of public notice as provided hereinafter:
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1. Substituted by Notfn. No. F.4(11) Col./98, dt. 16.08.1999.
1[Provided that the applications which are found defective shall be placed before a committee consisting of concerned District Collector or his nominee as the Chairman and concerned Deputy Commissioner/Assistant Commissioner, Colonisation as member. The allotting authority shall consider the recommendation of this committee before deciding any such application.]