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(1) The Board 24[or the Company] may direct the preparation of a land improvement scheme for any area within its jurisdiction. A scheme may make provision for any of the following matters, namely:- (i) preservation and improvement of soil ; (ii) prevention of erosion of soil ; (iii) improvement of water supply 25[including the construction or im- provement of wells and other underground water resources and exploitation of those resources.] 26[(iiia) development of land for better utilisation of the irrigation potential to be specified in the scheme;] (iv) introduction of dry farming methods ; (v) improvement in the methods of cultivation ; (vi) reclamation of water-logged land or of land from the sea ; (vii) prohibition or control of grazing ; (viii) control and maintenance of tree growth ; 27[viiia) regulation or prohibition of firing of vegetation;] 28[(viiib) cultivation of waste or fallow land;] 29[(viiic) eradication of hariyali or any other kind of weed or vegetation which is likely injuriously to affect, or interfere with cultivation;] (ix) such other matters not inconsistent with the objects of this Act as may be prescribed. 30[(2) On such direction being 31[issued by the Board or the Company, the Board or the Company] shall appoint an officer to prepare, in accordance with such instructions as it may issue, a draft scheme containing the following particulars, namely:- (i) the objects of the scheme ; (ii) the approximate area of the lands to be included in the scheme; (iii) the work or kind of work to be carried out under the scheme; (iv) the agency or agencies through which the work shall be carried out; (v) such other particulars as may be prescribed.]