Repairs and renewals of work

If any person shown in a statement prepared under section 14 as liable to maintain and keep in repair the work, fails to effect such repairs or renewals, or to do so within such time, as the Deputy Commissioner may, by order specify, the Deputy Commissioner may get the repairs or renewals done by Gram Panchayat or such other agency as he thinks fit, and the expenses incurred by him in so doing shall be recovered from the said person as arrears of land revenue.