(1) On the publication of any proposal regarding a scheme in the Official Gazette and in not less than one newspaper in the regional language circulating in the area or route which is to be covered by such proposal any person may, within thirty days from the date of its publication in the Official Gazette, file objections to it before the State Government.
(2) The State Government may, after considering the objections and after giving an opportunity to the
objector or his representatives and the representatives of the State transport undertaking to be heard in the
matter, if they so desire, approve or modify such proposal.
(3) The scheme relating to the proposal as approved or modified under sub-section (2) shall then be
published in the Official Gazette by the State Government making such scheme and in not less than one
newspaper in the regional language circulating in the area or route covered by such scheme and the same
shall thereupon become final on the date of its publication in the Official Gazette and shall be called the
approved scheme and the area or route to which it relates shall be called the notified area or notified
route:
Provided that no such scheme which relates to any inter-State route shall be deemed to be an approved scheme unless it has the previous approval of the Central Government.
(4) Notwithstanding anything contained in this section, where a scheme is not published as an
approved scheme under sub-section (3) in the Official Gazette within a period of one year from the date
of publication of the proposal regarding the scheme in the Official Gazette under sub-section (1), the
proposal shall be deemed to have lapsed.
Explanation.--In computing the period of one year referred to in this sub-section, any period or
periods during which the publication of the approved scheme under sub-section (3) was held up on
account of any stay or injunction by the order of any court shall be excluded
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