Duties of Zilla Parishad during

2[scarcity], etc.— Where the State Government during

any year has declared any area as

3[a scarcity area] and has granted suspension or remission of land

revenue according to the scale prescribed by the State Government in this behalf under the relevant Code or where distress is caused by floods or other natural calamities in any area, it shall be the duty of the Zilla Parishad having jurisdiction over the area, if so directed by the State Government, to undertake relief operation in such area either by the grant of gratuitous relief in the form of doles of money or through expenditure on such public works or such preventive or remedial measures as may be specified by the State Government in the direction.

This portion was substituted for the words “revise or modify” by Mah. 35 of 1963, s. 45. This word was substituted for the word “famine” by Mah. 11 of 1976, s. 3, Second Schedule. These word were substituted for the words “a famine-stricken area or an area of acute scarcity” by Mah. 35 of 1963, s. 46.

86 The Maharashtra Zilla Parishads and Panchayat [1962 : Mah. V

Samitis Act, 1961