Power to constitute a controlled forest.

(1) If the State Government is satisfied A at any time that the provisions of chapter II are not sufficient to secure due protection of any notified forest or that it is not necessary in the interest of the general public to apply the provisions of this chapter to any private forest whether notified or not, it may constitute such forest a Controlled Forest in the manner hereinafter provided. (2) If it appears from the report of the Forest Officer that any wasteland, the area of which is not less than fifty acres which is lying uncultivated for more than seven years and is suitable for afforestation and that the owner of such land is unwilling or unable to cultivate is by growing therein agricultural crops, or to use it for purposes of horticulture to the satisfaction such Forest Officer or to afforest it, the State Government may, after satisfying itself that such land cannot be more advantageously used for the purposes of agriculture or horticulture than for the purposes of afforestation, constitute such wasteland as Controlled Forest in the manner hereinafter provided.