Duties of the Drilling Agency, Implementing Agency and Land Owner.- (1)

Immediately after the completion of drilling the bore-well or tube well, the drilling agency or implementing agency, shall cap the bore-well or tube well properly either by steel cap with bolts and nuts or with a threaded cap as a safety measure to prevent fatal accidents.

1. (2) In case of failed or abandoned or incomplete drilled bore-well or tube well to avoid caving and collapse, the same shall be filled with locally resourced stones and slurry and build a mound 2'x2' above the ground level. The mound shall be fenced with barbed wire or locally available thorny plants. Such filling shall not be with solid waste or chemical waste materials.
2. (3) The drilling agency and/or the implementing agency shall safely close failed or abandoned or incompletely drilled bore-well or tube well as stated in subsection (2) within 24 hours and shall inform the concerned authorities immediately the action taken in this regard along with photographs of the closed bore-well or tube well and the concerned authority shall after inspection issue a certificate certifying the bore-well is properly closed.
3. (4) The drilling agency shall submit a declaration to the nearest Gram Panchayat or Village Administrative Officer in case of Rural Areas and Junior Engineer (Works), working under the respective Municipal Commissioner or Chief Officer of the Jurisdictional Urban Local Body as the case may be stating that, he has complied with requirements of above sub-sections (1), (2) and (3).
4. (5) In case of repairs immediately after the removal of submersible pump or suction pipe, the owner (excluding farmer) or servicing agency shall cap the bore-well or tube well properly either by steel cap with bolts and nuts or with a threaded cap as a safety measure to prevent fatal accidents.
5. (6) If the owner intends to rejuvenate inoperative or defunct bore-well or tube well, the owner of the land (excluding farmer) or premises shall have to safely close and cover such bore-well or tube well either by steel cap with bolts and nuts or with a threaded cap as a safety measure to avoid causalities.