Set apart land to be constituted as a Protected Forest or Reserve Forest in the manner laid down in the Indian Forest Act, 1972 (XVI of 1927).

Management of land by gram Panchayat

1. (1) Where the State Government has entrusted the management of any land belonging to the Government to the Gram Panchayat of a village, an appeal against the order of allotment of land passed by the gram Panchayat shall lie to the Sub-divisional Officer in whose jurisdiction the land is situated.
2. (2) The Sub-Divisional Officer may either on his 0wn motion or on the application of any party call for the record of any proceedings of a Gram Panchayrt for allotment of land for the purpose of satisfying himself as to the legality or the propriety of any order passed by such Gram Panchayat and may pass such order in reference thereto as he thinks fit.