Compulsory duties of the Panchayat

Administrative functions and powers

Compulsory duties of the Panchayat. Provided that nothing in this clause shall be deemed to dispute any duty or confer any power upon the Panchayat with that are made under the administrative control of a Government

1. (b) construction, maintenance in good and embankments on rivers, Nullahs, protection of all agricultural lands, erosion : Provided that the Government may direct Panchayat to repair and construct any embankment or bund or a maintenance of which vests for the time Department ;
2. (c) digging of exit channels, embankments, drains, bridges and taking of other mation for agricultural purposes, of all clod bursts or other calamities ;
3. (d) notwithstanding anything contained in regulation or rule, construction of new irrigation silt clearance, deepening, widening, w&ng condition of all the Kuhls, Nullahs other water courses as are necessary for agricultural and for the Provided that the Panchayat shall not repairs under this section in respect of any Nallah, Kuhl, spring or other water course, specifically vested in the Public Works and Government ;
4. (e) disposal of unclaimed colpses, carcases add nightsoil ;
5. (f) registration of births and deaths ;
6. (g) the cutting of any tree, hedge or public street or situated within a water flow of water : Provided that nothing in this clause shall be deemed to damage the arm or in part of any row tree without the written sanction of the Department concerned ;
7. (h) the excavation, maintenance wells, tube-wells, springs, ponds and tion of machinery for the bathing purposes ;
   • (i) regulating places for offensive matter ;
8. (j) the maintenance of the sanitary conditions of the village ;
9. (l) the provision for public latrines and arrangements to clean them, whether public or private ;
10. (m) sanitation and prevention of epidemic and to stop spread of an epidemic ;
11. (n) the execution of development schemes ; Provided that nothing in clause
12. (B) of this section shall be deemed to dispute any duty or confer any power upon the Panchayat with respect to any subject under the direct administrative control of any Department of the Government or to authorize the Panchayat to interfere with any existing rights.