(1)Any person interested in any land which has been notified under
sub-section (1) of section 11, as being required or likely to be required for a public purpose, may
within sixty days from the date of the publication of the preliminary notification, object to -
(a)the area and suitability of land proposed to be acquired;
(c)the findings of the Social Impact Assessment report.
(2)Every objection under sub -section (1) shall be made to the Collector in writing, and the
Collector shall give the objector an opportunity of being hea rd in person or by any person authorised
by him in this behalf or by an Advocate and shall, after hearing all such objections and after making
such further inquiry, if any, as he thinks necessary, either make a report in respect of the land which
has been notified under sub -section (1) of section 11, or make different reports in respect of different
parcels of such land, to the appropriate Government, containing his recommendations on the
objections, together with the record of the proceedings held by him a long with a separate report giving
therein the approximate cost of land acquisition, particulars as to the number of affected families likely
to be resettled, for the decision of that Government.
(3)The decision of the appropriate Government on the object ions made under sub -section (2) shall
be final.