Preparation of schemes for drainage works

(1) Whenever it appears to the Government that any drainage work excluding field drain is necessary in the interest of public health or for improvement of any lands, or for the proper cultivation or irrigation thereof or that protection from floods or other accumulation of water or injurious salts or from erosion by a river, is required for any lands the Government may by notification declare that the drainage work shall be constructed after a day to be named in the said notification, not being earlier than three months from the date thereof. (2) As soon as practicable after the issue of a notification under sub-section (1), Divisional Canal Officer or any officer duly empowered under this Act shall cause public notice to be given at convenient places, stating that the Government intends to construct the drainage work excluding field drain referred to in sub-section (1). (3) The provisions contained in sections 11 and 12 regarding the acquisition of land for the construction of work shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to the construction of drainage work referred to in subsection (1).