Power to make general orders

A Gram Panchayat may by general order to be published in the manner prescribed, - (a) prohibit the use of water of a well, pond or other excavation suspected to be dangerous to the public health; (b) regulate or prohibit the watering of cattle or bathing or washing at or near wells, ponds or other excavations reserved for drinking water; (c) regulate or prohibit the steeping of hemp or any other plant in or near ponds or other excavations within two hundred and twenty metres of the residential area of a village; (d) regulate or prohibit the dyeing or tanning of skins within four hundred and forty meters of the residential area of a village; (e) regulate or prohibit the excavation of earth or stone or other materials, within two hundred and twenty meters of the residential area of a village: