When drainage works are necessary, State Government may order scheme to be carried out.

(1) Whenever it appears to the State Government that any drainage work is necessary for the public health or for the improvement of the proper cultivation or irrigation of any land, or that protection from floods or other accumulations of water, or from erosion by a river, is required for any land, the State Government may cause a scheme for such work to be drawn up and carried into execution. (2) The person authorised by the State Government may authorise any person to draw up and execute the scheme referred to under sub-section (1) and thereupon such person may exercise in connection therewith the powers conferred on canal-officer under sections 6, 7 and 8 and shall be liable to the obligations imposed upon canal-officer under sections 9 and 22.