Section 4 — Settlement of standard areas

(1) The [State] Government may, after such inquiry as it deems fit and after consultation with the District Advisory Committee [or any other body], appointed by it, provisionally settle for any class of land in any local area the minimum area that can be cultivated profitably as a separate plot.

(2) The [State] Government shall by notification in the Official Gazette , and in such other manner as may be prescribed publish the minimum areas provisionally settled by it under sub-section (1) and invite objections thereto.