Committee's reports and recommendations.

(1) Subject to this section, the Committee may, from time to time as occasion requires, make reports to the State Government containing recommendations in relation to the naming of, or the altering of the name of a place.

(2) Before making a report under sub-section (1), the Committee must request the following persons to seek the views of interested persons and provide a report to the Committee of those views;

(a) if a person requested the naming or altering of the name of a place - the person;

(b) any other person the Committee considers appropriate.

(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (2) above, the Committee may on its own initiative, seek the views of interested persons. The Committee may also dispense with the requirement for seeking views of the interested person, if the interested person is an urban local body or a rural local body, and such body is not functional for the time being, for any reason.

(4) The Committee shall forward to the State Government with each report under sub-section (1), any communications and particulars of any representation received by it in relation to the naming of or the altering of the name of a place to which the report relates.

(5) A reference in this section to the altering of the name of a place shall be read as including a reference to the substitution of another name for the name of the place.

(6) In this section:-

interested persons include the following:-

(a) If the report relates to a place within an urban local body or a rural local body- the urban local body or the rural local body established for the area;

(b) If the report relates to the naming of an individual plot of privately owned land- the owner or developer of the land;

(c) The family or descendants of a person proposed to be commemorated through the naming of a place.