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(1) Notwithstanding anything in section 116, if at any time any Grama Sabha within an Anchal decides to collect land revenue, rents and cesses in relation to any Grama Panchayat area, such decision shall be communicated to the State Government within the prescribed date and in the prescribed manner and thereupon the State Government shall, as soon as maybe, by notification published in the Gazette and in such other manner as may be prescribed, declare that from and after the first day of the agricultural year next following it shall be the duty of the said Grama Sabha to collect such dues on behalf of the Anchal Sasan constituted for the said Anchal. (2) Such Grama Sabha shall collect such dues in accordance with the provisions of this section and shall deposit the collections, as often during any agricultural year, and in such manner, as may be prescribed, in the Anchal Fund to the extent of the total demand for the agricultural year less such remuneration for the Grama Sabha as may be prescribed subject to the minimum of 16 per cent of the total demand for the year and the balance of such demand shall be collected by the Grama Sabha and appropriated by it to the Grama Fund: Provided that if the total deposit in the Anchal Fund during the agricultural year falls short of the amount as aforesaid, such shortage shall be paid from out of the Grama Fund to the Anchal Fund by the last day of the said agricultural year. (3) Without prejudice to the provisions of sub-section (2) in case of any gross or persistent default on the part of the Grama Sabha in the discharge of its duties imposed under sub-section (1), the Collector, on his own motion or on the report of the Anchal Sasan in that behalf, may, after giving the Grama Sabha an opportunity to show cause, relieve the Grama Sabha of the said duties and issue such other order or orders as he may deem necessary and consequential thereto and such order or orders of the Collector shall be published in the Gazette and from and after the first day of the agricultural year next following the date of such publication, the notification issued in pursuance of sub-section (1) shall stand cancelled. (4) The arrears of land revenue, rents and cesses, if any, that may be due for collection by the date of the notification issued by the Collector under sub-section (3) shall be collected in accordance with the orders in that behalf issued by the Collector under the said sub-section and credited as soon as may be to the Grama Fund. (5) The Grama Sabha which has been relieved of its duties of collection in pursuance of sub-section (3) may apply to the State Government in the prescribed manner to resume collection of the land revenue, rents and cesses and the State Government may, by notification, published in the Gazette and subject to the provisions of sub-section (2) and to such conditions and restrictions, if any, as may be specified in the said notification, allow the Grama Sabha to resume collection of such dues. (6) Any Grama Sabha duly authorised to collect land revenue, rents and cesses in pursuance of sub-section (1) or sub-section (5) may, on application to the State Government in the prescribed form and manner, be relieved of its duties of such collection by the State Government as soon as may be by a notification published in the Gazette and in such other manner as may be prescribed, and from and after the first day of the agricultural year next following the date of the notification it shall cease to be the duty of the said Grama Sabha to collect such dues on behalf of the Anchal Sasan.