(1) The prescribed authority shall sell or dispose of, as prescribed, the land acquired or confiscated pursuant to this Act to a local person of that Village Development Committee or Municipality from which that land has been acquired or confiscated. In making such sale or disposal, priority shall be given to the freed bonded labor, downtrodden (dalit), indigenous and nationalities (janajati), out of the local landless people. (2) The land obtained on such sale and disposal shall be registered in the name of such person, as the landowner thereof. (3) The prescribed authority may give the land pursuant to Sub-section (1) to the former landowner, tenant or any other person until the sale or disposal of the land for tilling under any terms and conditions.
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