Authorized officer to take action in certain cases

Where, on the basis of the return furnished under section 9 or section 10 or under sub-section (1) of section 11 or the additional particulars, if any, furnished under that sub-section, or on the basis of the information obtained by the authorized officer under clause (a) of sub-section (2) of section 11 and the orders passed on the representation and evidence, if any, under clause (b) of sub-section (2) of section 11, the authorized officer is satisfied that any land of the public trust has not been leased out in accordance with the provisions of sections 6, 8 and 15 (3), he shall – (a) in any case, where it appears that the failure to lease out the land is due to the non-availability of persons to take on lease the land concerned, make an enquiry into the matter and submit a report containing such particulars and to such authority as may be prescribed; and (b) in any case where he is satisfied that the failure to lease out the land is not due to the non-availability of persons to take on lease the land concerned, choose, subject to such conditions as may be prescribed, one or more persons willing to cultivate such land and direct the trustee of the public trust concerned to lease out such land to the person or persons aforesaid within the prescribed period: Provided that the extent of the land so leased out to any one person together with the other land, if any, already held by him shall not exceed in the aggregate the cultivating tenant‘s ceiling area.