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Authorities to grant or reject permissions within a specified time limit.—(1) Every authority which is empowered under any law, order or notification to issue any licence, permit, no objection certificate, approvals, technical approvals, permissions, development permissions, or any kind of authorisations, shall be required to deal with, attend to and dispose of applications/requests thereof within a period specified in the relevant Statutes and where no such period is specified, within a period of twenty one days from the date of receipt of such application/request and not any longer. (2) Any failure on the part of any authority to deal with and dispose of the applications/request referred to in sub-section (1) shall be construed to be a serious default in the discharge of its duty and a violation of the right of the citizens under this Act; and shall be punishable in accordance with the provisions of this Act. (3) The time limit specified under the provisions of this Act shall apply to every Authority in this State including the Appellate Authorities and the Administrative side of Judicial and Quasi Judicial Authority, set up or prescribed under this Act and any other law: Provided however, such time limit in case of any Judicial, Quasi Judicial proceedings shall be three months.