Powers to acquire land etc. :-

(1) Any land required by the Highway Authority for discharging its function under this Act shall be deemed to be the land needed for a public purposes and such land may on a request being received from the Authority, be acquired by the State Government for the said Authority under the provision of this Act. (2) On the Highway Authority approaching the State Government as provided under sub-section (1) with such requisition and the State Government being satisfied that for a public purpose any land is required for the building, notification in the official Gazette, declare its intention to acquire such land; Provided that, if the land intended to be acquired is situated in the Scheduled Area, before declaring its intention to acquire such land, the State Government or the officer authorized in this behalf shall consult the following, in such manner as may be laid down by the State Government by a general or special order in this behalf. (i) the Gram Sabha or Panchayat concerned, if the land is falling within the limits of a village; (ii) the Panchayat Samiti concerned, if the land is falling within the limits of more than one villages in a Block. Explanation for the purposes of this sub-section - (i) the expressions "Gram sabha" and "Scheduled Area" shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in the Jharkhand Panchayat Raj Act 2001. (ii) the expressions "Panchayat Samiti" and "Zila Parishad", shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in the Jharkhand Panchayat Raj Act 2001. (3) Every notification issued under sub-section (2) shall give a brief description of the land. (4) Any officer authorized by the State Government, by notification in the official Gazette, to perform the function of Land Acquisition shall cause the substance of the notification to be published in two local newspapers, one of which will be in a vernacular language.