Section 172
The 1[Kshettra Panchayat] may construct within the controlled rural area such drains as it thinks necessary for keeping an inhabited area properly cleansed and drained and may carry such drains through, across or under any street or place, and after reasonable notice in writing to the owner or occupier, into, through or under any building or land :
172. The 1[Kshettra Panchayat] may construct within the controlled rural area such drains as it thinks necessary for keeping an inhabited area properly cleansed and drained and may carry such drains through, across or under any street or place, and after reasonable notice in writing to the owner or occupier, into, through or under any building or land :
Provided that compensation worked out in the manner provided by rules shall be paid to such owner or occupier.
(1) The 1 [Kshettra Panchayat] may, from time to time, enlarge, lesson, alter the course of, cover or otherwise improve a public drain and may discontinue, close up or remove any such drain.
The exercise of the power conferred by sub-section (1) shall be subject to the condition that the 1 [Kshettra Panchayat] shall provide another and equally effective drain in place of any existing drain of the use of which any person is deprived by the exercise of the said power.
(1) The owner or occupier of a building or land within the rural area shall be entitled to cause his drains to empty into the drains of the 1[Kshettra Panchayat], provided that he first obtains the written permission of the 1 [Kshettra Panchayat], and that he complies with such conditions consistent with any bye-law as the 1 [Kshettra Panchayat] prescribed as to the mode in which, and the superintendence under which the communications are to be made between drains not vested in the 1[Kshettra Panchayat] and drains which are so vested.
Whoever, without the written permission of the 1 [Kshettra Panchayat] or in contravention of any bye-law or of any direction or condition made or imposed under sub-section (1), makes or causes to be made, or alters or causes to be altered a connection of a drain belonging to himself or to some other persons with a drain vested in the 1 [Kshettra Panchayat], shall be liable upon conviction to a fine which may extend to fifty rupees, and the 1 [Kshettra Panchayat] may by written notice require such person to close, demolish, alter, remake or otherwise deal with such connection as it deems fit.
STREET REGULATIONS
Except where a site abuts a public or private street, if any person owning or possessing any land in a controlled rural area not hitherto used for building purposes intends to utilize, sell, lease, or otherwise transfer such land or any portion thereof as sit for the construction of a building he shall before utilizing, selling, letting or otherwise transferring such site lay out and make a street which shall connect such site with an existing public or private street.
(1) Every person before beginning to lay out or make a new private street in a controlled rural area shall submit an application in writing to the 1 [Kshettra Panchayat] seeking permission to lay out or make such street and shall along with such application submit the following particulars ;
(a) the proposed level, direction and width of the street,
(b) the street alignment and the building line, and shall also state in the application the arrangement to be made for leveling, paving, metalling, flagging, channeling and draining of the street.
The provisions of this Act and of any rules or bye-laws made thereunder as to the level and width of a public street and the height or abuilding abutting thereon shall also apply to the case of a street referred to in sub -section (1) ; and all other particulars referred to in that sub -section shall be subject to the approval of the 1 [Kshettra Panchayat] .
Within sixty days after the receipt of an application under sub -section (1) the 1 [Kshettra Panchayat] shall either sanction the laying out or the making of the street on such conditions as it may think fit to impose or disallow it or ask for further information with respect to it within a specified reasonable period.
Such sanction may be refused if —
(i) the proposed street would conflict with any arrangemne4ts which have been made or which are, in the opinion of the 1 [Kshettra Panchayat], likely to be made for carrying out any general scheme of a street improvement, or