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(1) The State Government may, by notification, declare for the purposes of this Act any mauza or part of a mauza or group of contiguous mauzas or parts thereof to be a Gram. (2) The notification under sub-section (1) shall specify the name of the Gram by which it shall be known and shall specify the local limits of such Gram. (3) The State Government may, after making such enquiry as it may think fit and after consulting the views of the Gram Panchayat or Panchayats concerned, by notification— (a) exclude from any Gram any area comprised therein; or (b) include in any Gram any area contiguous to such Gram; or (c) divide the area of a Gram so as to constitute two or more Grams; or (d) unite the areas of two or more Grams so as to constitute a single Gram.