Section 12(b) in Sikkim Land (Requisition and Acquisition) Act, 1977
(b)authorize any person -(i)to enter upon and survey and take levels of any land in such locality;(ii)to dig or bore into the sub-soil;(iii)to do all other acts necessary to ascertain whether the land is adapted for such purposes;(iv)to set out the boundaries of the land proposed to be taken and the intended line of the work (if any) proposed to be made thereon;(v)to make such levels, boundaries and line by placing marks an cutting trenches;(vi)and , where otherwise the survey cannot be completed and the levels taken and the boundaries and line marked, to cut down and clear away any part of the standing crop, fence or jungle;
