The Government may of its own accord or on application declare its intention to make scheme for consolidation of holdings.

With the object of consolidating holdings in any village or taluqa or any part thereof for the purpose of better cultivation of lands therein, the Government may, of its own motion or on application made in this behalf, declare by a notification in the Official Gazette and by publication in the prescribed manner in the village or villages concerned its intention to make a scheme for the consolidation of holdings in such village or villages or part thereof as may be specified. On such publication in the village concerned the Govennment may appoint a Consolidation Officer, who shall proceed to prepare a scheme for the consolidation of holdings in such village or villages or part thereof, as the case may be, in the manner hereinafter provided.