Section 7 of Land Acquisition Act, 1953

In section 17 of the said Act, in sub-section (2), after the words

"access to any such station", the following words shall be inserted,
namely ;

"or whenever owing to a like emergency or owing to breaches or

other unforeseen events causing damage to roads, rivers, channels
or tanks, it becomes necessary for the State Government to acquire
t h e immediate possession of any land for the purpose of
maintaining road communication or irrigation or water supply
service, as the case may be,"