Permission for construction

No land within the controlled area shall be used for any construction without the prior permission of the State Government, subject to such conditions as may be specified. On the date fixed under section 41 or on such other date to which the inquiry may be adjourned, the officer authorised under section 41 shall, after holding a formal enquiry and after hearing the objections, if any, stated by the persons as required by notice under section 41, make an order. The order shall specify:- (a) the lands benefited by the construction of works; (b) the increase in the value of such lands by the proposed construction; and (c) the amount of betterment charges leviable on each of the said lands. Provided that the betterment charges shall be levied from the date of order of diversion passed by the sub-section 172 of Madhay Pradesh land Revenue code 1959 (No. 20 of 1959): Provided further that no betterment charges shall be leviable in respect of any land :- (i) which is unsuitable for development as a building site, or (ii) which is situated beyond a distance of two hundred meters from the middle of the highway on either side.