Power to take over irrigation works for maintenance by Government.

43. Power to take over irrigation works for maintenance by Government. If the State Government considers that in the interest of the proper irrigation of lands under any irrigation work maintained by any person or body of persons, the work of maintenance in a fit state of repair of such irrigation work should be undertaken by the State Government, and the cost of such maintenance or any part thereof recovered from the holders of lands benefited by such irrigation work, the State Government may, by