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12. It will be seen that the power of the State Government to call for re-examination of records of any order is only on its own motion. Therefore an application under Section 34 by any other person may not be sufficient to invoke the jurisdiction. The State Government itself may on its own motion do so. We also need not go into the question as to whether the Government may be brought into motion to call for re-examination of records on an order declaring some land surplus by application made by someone else, as in the present case, was done by Respondent No. 8 and the power was exercised by Respondent No. 9 as we have observed already on declaration under Section 10 was made in 1985 and the revisional powers has been exercised in 1999 i.e. 14 years after the declaration was made, 14 years after the land vested in the State, 14 years after the possession was delivered to the petitioner, and years after the petitioner challenging the correctness of the declaration under Section 10 was dismissed by this Court. Years after appeal under Section 33 was filed by Baban Maruti Mokate which was dismissed by the appellate authority.