Vesting Panchayat Samiti with certain powers

(1) A Panchayat Samiti may be vested by the State Government with such powers under any local or special Act as the State Government may think fit. (2) A Panchayat Samiti shall perform such functions as may be assigned to it by notification under Section 31 of the Cattle Trespass Act, 1871. (3) A Panchayat Samiti shall exercise such other powers, perform such other functions or discharge such other duties as the State Government may, by general or special order, direct.