law: Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 
  Chapter IV Notification
  
  and Acquisition
  11. Publication of
  
  preliminary notification and power of officers thereupon.
  1.     
  
    Whenever,
  
  it appears to the appropriate Government that land in any area is required or
  
  likely to be required for any public purpose, a notification (hereinafter
  
  referred to as preliminary notification) to that effect along with details of
  
  the land to be acquired in rural and urban areas shall be published in the
  
  following manner, namely:-
  a.      in the Official
  
  Gazette;
  b.     in two daily
  
  newspapers circulating in the locality of such area of which one shall be in
  
  the regional language;
  c.      in the local language
  
  in the Panchayat, Municipality or Municipal Corporation, as the case may be and
  
  in the offices of the District Collector, the Sub-divisional Magistrate and the
  
  Tehsil;
  d.     uploaded on the
  
  website of the appropriate Government;
  e.      in the affected
  
  areas, in such manner as may be prescribed.
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    Immediately
  
  after issuance of the notification under sub-section (1), the concerned Gram
  
  Sabha or Sabhas at the village level, municipalities in case of municipal areas
  
  and the Autonomous Councils in case of the areas referred to in the Sixth
  
  Schedule to the Constitution, shall be informed of the contents of the
  
  notification issued under the said sub-section in all cases of land acquisition
  
  at a meeting called especially for this purpose.
  3.     
  
    The
  
  notification issued under sub-section (1) shall also contain a statement on the
  
  nature of the public purpose involved, reasons necessitating the displacement
  
  of affected persons, summary of the Social Impact Assessment Report and
  
  particulars of the Administrator appointed for the purposes of rehabilitation
  
  and resettlement under section 44.
  4.     
  
    No
  
  person shall make any transaction or cause any transaction of land specified in
  
  the preliminary notification or create any encumbrances on such land from the
  
  date of publication of such notification till such time as the proceedings
  
  under this Chapter are completed:
  Provided that the
  
  Collector may, on the application made by the owner of the land so notified,
  
  exempt in special circumstances to be recorded in writing, such owner from the
  
  operation of this sub-section:
  Provided further that
  
  any loss or injury suffered by any person due to his willful violation of this
  
  provision shall not be made up by the Collector.
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    After
  
  issuance of notice under sub-section (1), the Collector shall, before the issue
  
  of a declaration under section 20, undertake and complete the exercise of
  
  updating of land records as prescribed within a period of two months.