(1) Where a Planning Authority thinks that, in the interest of the public, it is necessary to undertake forthwith any of the works included in a draft scheme for a public purpose, the Planning Authority shall make an application through the Arbitrator to the State Government to vest in it the land (without any building) shown in the draft scheme.
(2) The State Government may, if satisfied that it is urgently necessary in the public interest to empower the Planning Authority to enter on such land for the purpose of executing any of such works, direct the Arbitrator, by notification in the Official Gazette, to take possession of the land, or may, after recording its reasons refuse to make any such direction :
Provided that, no such direction shall be made without the Arbitrator giving a hearing to any person or Planning Authority affected by such direction, and considering the report of the Arbitrator in that behalf.
(3) The Arbitrator shall then give a notice in the prescribed manner to the person interested in the land the possession of which is to be taken by Arbitrator requiring him to give possession of his land to the Arbitrator or any person authorised by him in this behalf within a period of one month from the date of service of notice ; and if no possession is delivered within the period specified in the notice, the Arbitrator shall take possession of the land and shall handover the land to the Planning Authority. Such land shall thereupon, notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, vest absolutely in the Planning Authority free from all encumbrances.
(2) The State Government may, if satisfied that it is urgently necessary in the public interest to empower the Planning Authority to enter on such land for the purpose of executing any of such works, direct the Arbitrator, by notification in the Official Gazette, to take possession of the land, or may, after recording its reasons refuse to make any such direction :
Provided that, no such direction shall be made without the Arbitrator giving a hearing to any person or Planning Authority affected by such direction, and considering the report of the Arbitrator in that behalf.
(3) The Arbitrator shall then give a notice in the prescribed manner to the person interested in the land the possession of which is to be taken by Arbitrator requiring him to give possession of his land to the Arbitrator or any person authorised by him in this behalf within a period of one month from the date of service of notice ; and if no possession is delivered within the period specified in the notice, the Arbitrator shall take possession of the land and shall handover the land to the Planning Authority. Such land shall thereupon, notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, vest absolutely in the Planning Authority free from all encumbrances.