PREPARATION AND SANCTIONING OF SCHEMES.

(1) For the efficient performance of its duties under this Act, the Board or a Generating Company, as the case may be, may prepare one or more schemes, relating to the establishment or acquisition of generating stations, tie-lines, substations or transmission lines as are referred to in Cl. (e) of Sec. 18 or Cl. (c) of sub-section (1) of Sec. 18-A as the case may be. (2) The Board or, as the case may be, the Generating Company which has prepared a scheme may, sanction such scheme either generally or in respect of any part of the area specified in the scheme and where a scheme has been sanctioned in respect of any part of the area such scheme subsequently be sanctioned in respect of any other part of that area: Provided that where the scheme is of the nature referred to in sub-section (1) of Sec. 29, the scheme shall not be sanctioned (generally or for part of an area) by the Board or the Generating Company except with the previous concurrence of the Authority. (2-A) The Board or, as the case may be, the Generating Company shall, as soon as may be after it has sanctioned any scheme which is not of the nature referred to in Sec. 29 forward the scheme to the Authority and, it required by Authority so to do, supply to the Authority any information incidental or supplementary to the scheme within such period as may be specified by the Authority. (3) Every scheme sanctioned under this section shall be published in the Official Gazette and in such local newspapers as the Board or, as the case may be, the Generating Company may consider necessary.