Chapter V DRAINAGE AND PREVENTION OF WATER LOGGING

1. (1) Whenever it appears to the State Government that injury to the public health or public convenience or to any irrigation work or to any land for which irrigation from a canal is available, has arisen or may arise from the encroachment of any river, stream or natural-drainage course, the State Government may, by notification published in the official Gazette prohibit, within limits to be specified in such notification, the formation of any such encroachment, or may order the removal or other modification of such encroachment.
2. (2) Thereupon so much of the said river, streams or natural drainage channel as is comprised within such limits shall be held to be a drainage work.

The canal officer or other person authorised by the State Government in that behalf may, after such notification, issue an order to the person causing or having control over any such obstruction to remove or modify the same within a time to be fixed in the order.

If, within the time so fixed, such person doesn't comply with the order, the canal officer may cause the encroachment to be removed or modified; the expenses involved in such removal or modification, shall be recovered from person concerned; Provided that the Divisional Canal Officer may, in cases of emergency, remove the encroachment before the publication of notification and the expenses incurred shall be recoverable from the person concerned.

1. (1) Whenever it appears to the State Government that any drainage work

excluding field drainage is necessary in the interest of public health , or for

improvement of any lands, or for proper cultivation or irritation thereof or that protection from floods or other accumulation of water or injurious salt or from erosion by a river, is required for any lands, the state Government may by notification declare that the drainage work shall be constructed after a day

to be mentioned in the said notification, not being earlier than three months

from the date thereof.

1. (2) As soon as practicable after the issue of a notification under sub section (i) the Divisional Canal Officer or any Officer duly empowered under this Act shall cause public notice to be given at convenient places, stating that the စဒ

Execution of drainage schemes After the day mentioned in the notification under section 16, the State Government may cause a scheme for such works to be drawn up and carried into execution, and the Divisional Canal Officer or any officer authorised by the State Government to draw up and execute such scheme may exercise in connection therewith all or any of the powers conferred on canal officers and shall be liable to any or all of the obligations imposed upon canal officers

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