Construction and maintenance of field channel

(1) Whenever it appears expedient to the Canal Officer either on his own motion or on the application of an owner or occupier or beneficiary that with a view to utilising irrigation potential created by an irrigation work, field channels should be constructed in any area, he may cause to be served on the owner or occupier or beneficiary concerned a notice in the prescribed form containing the exact location of sluices or outlets on the irrigation works and specifying the area of irrigable land to be served by the same and direct them to construct such field channels at their own cost within a specified time which shall not be more than three months from the date of issue of the notice. (2) If the owner or occupier or beneficiary fails to construct the field channels in his land as directed by the Canal Officer within the time prescribed under sub-section (1); the Canal Officer may, after giving the owner or occupier a reasonable opportunity of being heard, construct the field channels at the cost of the Government and recover the cost plus 15% of the actual cost pro rata from the owners or occupiers or beneficiaries.