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The Consolidation Officer shall prepare the scheme with due regard to the following principles, namely— (a) consolidation shall be made, as far as possible by way of exchange or amalgamation on the owners’ voluntarily agreeing to it before the consolidation Office: Provided that the Consolidation Officer shall ensure that in allotment of consolidated land, every such person gets, as far as possible, the same area or area of value as the original area or the value of the original area of such person; 3[* * * * * * *] 4[(aa) setting apart of land, where necessary, for public purposes, which shall include roads or village paths, play grounds, schools, burial and cremation grounds, grazing grounds, village tanks and wells ;] (b) allotment of a consolidated plot shall be made as far as Practicable to the owner who holds the largest area in that plot; (c) owners belonging to the same family shall, as far as possible, be allotted adjacent plots; (d) proximity to owner's permanent homestead or improvement, if any, made by the owner in the plot, shall be taken into consideration in alloting plots;