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(1) Subject to the following sub-sections and any general or special directions as may be issued from time to time by the State Government on the issue of a notification under section 4, all communal lands, waste lands, pasture lands, village forests, water sources other than water reservoirs or works maintained for irrigation or other purposes situated in any Grama Panchayat area within the Anchal and vested in or belonging to the State Government shall belong to and vest in the corresponding Grama Sabha : Provided that the State Government shall always have the power by notification from time to time to direct that any such communal land, waste land, pasture land, village forest or water source as aforesaid, instead of continuing to belong to and vest in the said Grama Sabha shall from the date of such notification belong to and vest in any other Local authority or Anchal Sasan as may be specified therein. (2) Nothing in this section shall alter, prejudice or affect any existing right or interest of any kind whatsoever of any person or body of persons whether corporate or not, under any other law, contract, custom or usage : Provided that the State Government shall have power from time to time by order to direct that the free right, if any, of user or appropriation of the income or usufruct by the village community under any law, custom or usage shall so far as may be exercised by the Grama Sabha subject to the application by such Sabha of such proportion of the income or usufruct or of the value thereof as may be determined in the prescribed manner on welfare activities for the benefit of such community. (3) The right to all the minor forest produce as specified in Schedule IV to this Act shall remain with the State Government. (4) The right to underground and surface minerals and right of user of the surface lands of mines shall remain vested fully in the State Government. (5) Such of the aforesaid lands, forests and water sources, as may have been in pursuance of any law or authority specifically placed under the management and control of any Anchal Sasan or other Local authority, shall continue to remain under such control until specifically transferred to the Grama Panchayat. (6) Nothing in this section shall affect the powers of the State Government under any other law for the time being in force to declare any area within the jurisdiction of the Grama Panchayat as a reserved forest and to exclude it from the management and control of the Grama Panchayat.