Declaration of Flood Plain Zoning

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(1) Where the State Government considers it necessary or expedient so to do, it may, by notification in the Official Gazette and in the Gazette of every District in which any part of a river flows, declare that flood plain zoning shall be made in the manner hereinafter specified.
(2) The State Government may direct that a survey be made of a river for the purpose of determining the limits within which the provisions of the Bill are to be applied and that proper charts and registers be prepared specifying all boundaries and landmarks and any other necessary matter for the purpose of ascertaining such limits.
(3) The State Government may by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint the Deputy Commissioner of the District or such other Authority as the Government considers necessary as the Flood Zoning Authority for the purposes of making a survey of the area required under sub-section
(2) and may specify in such Notification, the duties to be discharged by such Authority. The survey works shall be assisted by the Water Resources Department along with Nagaland State Disaster Management Authority.

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