Chapter XII Chapter XII

An Anchal Sasan may provide dispensaries, hospitals, health centres or child and maternity welfare centres for the public and dispensaries or hospitals for animals or birds and for that purpose may— (a) establish such dispensaries, hospitals, health centres or child and maternity welfare centres ; or (b) enter into any agreement with any person having the management of any such institution on such terms as may be agreed upon and approved by the State Government.

The State Government may, by notification direct that any public institutions as aforesaid shall be under the control and administration of the Anchal Sasan and thereupon the Anchal Sasan shall be charged with such control and administration together with the maintenance and repair of all buildings connected therewith : Provided that the State Government shall contribute to the said Anchal Sasan every year at least the amount equal to the amount expended by the State Government on such institutions during the year immediately preceding the years of such transfer.

An Anchal Sasan may contribute such annual or other sum as may be agreed on and approved by the State Government towards the cost and maintenance of any dispensary, hospital, health centres or child and maternity welfare centres situated outside the Anchal.

An Anchal Sasan may provide travelling dispensaries for the treatment of the public or animals and birds or locate first-aid centres for the same and provide attendance and supply of medicines thereto.

Notwithstanding anything contained in the Orissa Municipal Act, 1950 or the Orissa Grama Panchayats Act, 1948 the Anchal Sasan may control the management and maintenance of hospitals, dispensaries, public health institutions and arrangements for public health, sanitation and control of epidemics by the Grama Panchayats, Municipalities and Notified Area Councils or other authorities in the Anchal and may also control the establishment of new hospitals, dispensaries and public health units.

An Anchal Sasan may— (a) construct, repair and maintain any water-works benefiting more than one Grama Panchayat, Municipality or Notified Area Council in the Anchal or an area outside any such Grama Panchayat, Municipality or Notified Area Council ; (b) make grants-in-aid to a Grama Panchayat, Municipality or Notified Area Council in the Anchal to construct, maintain or repair any water-works, wells or tanks of the Grama Panchayat, Municipality or Notified Area Council respectively for providing drinking water, bathing water or water for washing clothes and animals or such public purposes ; (c) make grants-in-aid to any person owning or possessing any well or tank for repairing the same provided that the person agrees to allow full control of the water source by the Anchal Sasan or Grama Panchayat of the area to which the Anchal Sasan may delegate its powers of control.

The Anchal Executive Officer, on his own motion or on the report of any medical or health officer in the employ of Government or the Anchal or on information that the water in any well, tank or other sources of water-supply to which the public have access, is likely to endanger the health of the public or cause the spread of any dangerous disease, may by public notice prohibit the use of such water. Such notice shall be served by affixing the same in a conspicuous place over the source of water-supply or by beat of drum stating the number of days the prohibition shall last.

If any Anchal Sasan is satisfied that any Grama Panchayat within its jurisdiction has failed to discharge their functions under the Orissa Grama Panchayats Act, 1948 in respect of— (a) setting apart tanks for drinking, bathing, washing of clothes or animals ; or (b) prohibiting the misuse of water reserved for drinking, bathing, washing of clothes or animals and defiling of such water; it shall notwithstanding anything contained in the aforesaid Act make an order for discharge of such functions by the Grama Panchayat within such date as may be specified in that order and if the Grama Panchayat fails to carry out the order so made within the date specified, the Anchal Sasan shall discharge them and any order made or action taken by the Anchal Sasan shall be deemed to be made under the provisions of the aforesaid Act.

(1) The Anchal Executive Officer may by notice require the owner or occupier of any building or land situated in the Anchal, which appears to him to be in a filthy or unwholesome state or overgrown with any thick or noxious vegetation, trees or undergrowth injurious to the health or dangerous to the public or offensive to the neighbourhood or otherwise a source of nuisance, to clear, cleanse or otherwise put the building or land in proper state or to clear away and remove such vegetation, trees or undergrowth or to take such other action as may be deemed necessary by the Anchal Executive Officer, to remove such nuisance within such period and in such manner as may be specified in the notice. (2) If it appears to the Anchal Executive Officer necessary for sanitary purposes so to do, he may by notice require the owner or occupier of any building or land to cleanse or disinfect the same in the manner and within such period as may be specified in the notice. (3) If within the period specified in the notice the owner or occupier does not carry out the directions the Anchal Executive Officer may execute the work and the cost of doing so shall be recoverable from the owner or occupier. (4) Any person aggrieved by the order of the Anchal Executive Officer under this section may appeal to the Anchal Sabha within one month from the date of the order and the decision of the Anchal Sabha shall be final.

(1) When the Anchal Executive Officer removes any materials or cuts down any trees, or hedge or shrub or part thereof in exercise of his powers under this Chapter, he may sell the materials removed or things cut down and apply the proceeds towards the payment of expenses incurred. (2) If after a reasonable enquiry it appears to the Anchal Executive Officer that there is no owner or occupier to whom notice can be given under the provisions of this Chapter he may get any work executed under the said provisions as may appear to him necessary and may recover the expenses incurred in such manner as he deems fit.

189. In the event of prevalence of any dangerous epidemic disease within any area in the Anchal, the Anchal Executive Officer may by notice require the owner or occupier of any building, booth or tent used for the purpose of public entertainment to close down the same for such period as he may fix in this behalf.

190. (1) Every owner or person having the control of any place used at the date of the coming into operation of this Act as a place for burying, burning or otherwise disposing of the dead shall, if such place is not already registered apply to the concerned Grama Panchayat to have such place registered. (2) If it appears to such Grama Panchayat that there is no owner or person having the control of such place the Grama Panchayat shall assume such control and register such place or may close it. (3) No dead bodies shall be thrown or buried or burnt or otherwise disposed of at any place other than a registered burial ground.

194. (1) Every Grama Panchayat shall organise fire-fighting squads and for this purpose may compel any able-bodied adult in the Grama Panchayat area to join the fire-fighting squad. (2) The State Government may make suitable rules for the formation of fire-fighting squads and the powers to be exercised by the various persons comprising the squad for effective control of fires. (3) The Anchal Sasan may provide suitable training facilities for training fire-fighting squads in the Anchal.

195. No person shall be entitled to compensation for any damages sustained by reason of any action taken by the authorities of an Anchal or a Grama Panchayat in pursuance of their powers under this Chapter.