Instruction regarding acquisition of land for Uttar Pradesh State Electricity Board issued to District Magistrate.
GO No. 4841-H/XXIII-PA-2397 HR/59 Dated : Dec 7, 1959
I am directed to say that with the constitution of the Uttar Pradesh State Electricity Board under Section 5 of the Electricity (Supply) Act, 1948 the Kanpur Electricity Supply Administration and all the works. schemes and projects controlled and administered by the Electricity Department of Government (except Rihand Dam Power Project) were transferred to the said Board with effect from April 1, 1959. The Uttar Pradesh state Electricity Board having been declared as a Local Fund, Government are advised that the land needed in connection with the works and projects mentioned above shall be acquired by the government for the Board and an agreement, as required under section 41 of the land Acquisition Act, 1894 (Act No. 1 of 1894), will have to executed by the Board with the Government. I am, therefore, to request that all proposals pertaining to the acquisition of land, save in respect of the land required for purposes of the Rihand Dam Power Project, should in the first instance be furnished to the Secretary, Uttar Pradesh State Electricity Board, Vidhan Bhawan, Lucknow with necessary certificate draft notification, etc. who will in turn submit them to Government alongwith a draft agreement (with four spare copies on plain Paper) duly signed by accredited assignee of the Board for ratification and publication in the Uttar Pradesh gazette as required by Section 42, and issue of notification under Sections 4 and 6 of the Land Acquisition Act.
2. I am to add that cases relating to acquisition of the land in connection with the Rihand Dam Power Projects shall continue to be referred to Government direct as hithertofore.