Section 14(a) in United Khasi-Jaintia Hills Autonomous District (Management and Control of Forests) Rules, 1960
(a)The Executive Committee of the District Council after examining the report of the officer making the enquiry and after such further enquiry as it may think fit to make, shall by an order determine the area to be constituted into a Protected Forest or Green Block and declare the same by publication in the official Gazette, setting forth the boundary, location and other necessary particulars of the area, as a Protected Forest or a Green Block, as the case may be.
