(1) In a Village Panchayat either suo motu or on a representation made by any of the persons residing within its limits, considers that any land set apart for any purpose referred to in sub-clause (b) of clause (16) of Section 3 of the Tamil Nadu Estates Land Act, 1908, namely, threshing fields, cattle stand, villages sites and other lands in the village which are set apart is no longer required for that purpose and that it should obtain the sanction of the Collector to issue an order under clause (b) of sub-section
(1) of Section 135 of the Act directing that it shall be used for any other specified communal purpose, it shall, by a notice to be published in the village in which the land is situated by beat of drum and by affixture in the building in which the office of the Village Panchayat is located, invite objections if any, to the proposed order within a specified date which shall not be less than thirty days from the date of such publication of the notice. The notice shall also specify the time and date on which the objection will be heard. A copy of the notice shall be served on the landholder or any person having possession or control over the land either in person or by registered post with acknowledgement due, giving thirty days time from the date of service to file his objection, if any.
(2) The date of hearing under sub-rule (1) shall be after the expiry of fifteen days from the date on which the time allowed for filing objection.
(3) The Village Panchayat shall hear every objection that may be received on or before the date fixed in sub-rule (1) and in doing so, give all reasonable opportunity to the parties concerned to produce both oral and documentary evidences in proof of their claim.