Acquisition of protected monument

If the State Government apprehends that a protected monument or archaeological site and remains in a danger of being destroyed, injured, misused, or allowed to fall into decay, it may acquire the protected monument or archaeological site and remains under the provisions of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (Act 1 of 1894) as the maintenance of the protected monument or archaeological site and remains were a public purpose within the meaning of that Act.