Superintendence of embankments.

The prescribed authority may––

1. (a) cause any embankment which adjoins or connects public embankments, or forms by junction with them part of a line of embankments, or is necessary for the protection of the neighbouring land, to be taken charge of and kept up by the Government ;
2. (b) cause any private embankment or other structure which endangers the stability of a public embankment or obstructs the beneficial drainage of the concerned area to be removed ;
3. (c) change, when necessary, the line of any public embankment or make a new embankment ;
4. (d) enlarge any public embankment after acquiring land, if necessary, under the State Land Acquisition Act, Samvat 1990 and do all acts necessary and proper for the maintenance thereof ;
5. (e) forbid raising of, or alterations to, an embankment ;
6. (f) allow the construction of a private embankment of approved plan and design within a specified period ; and
7. (g) enter upon any land and use it to control a flood or breach of an embankment.