Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
In the sphere of sanitation and health— (a) supply of water for domestic use and for cattle; (b) construtcion and cleaning of public roads, drains, ponds tanks and wells other than tanks and wells used for irrigation purposes and other public places; (c) sanitation, conservancy, the prevention and abatement of nuisance; (d) preservation and improvement of public health, establishing and maintaining public hospitals and dispensaries providing public relief; (e) regulation by licensing or otherwise of tea, coffee and milk shops; (f) provision, maintenance and regulation of burning and burial grounds; (g) ensuring systematic disposal of carcasses, provision of definite place for the purpose and other means for the disposal of unclaimed corpses and carcasses; (h) construction and maintenance of public latrines; (i) taking of measures to prevent the outbreak, spread and recurrence of any infections disease; (j) reclaiming of unheathy localities; (k) removal of rubbish heaps, jungle growth, prickly pear, the filling in of disused wells, insanitary ponds, pools, ditches, pits or hollows, the prevention of water logging in irrigated areas and other improvements of sanitary conditions; (l) maternity and child welfare; (m) the encouragement of human and animal vaccination; (n) the provision and maintenance of compost pits; (o) regulating the keeping of cattle and taking necessary steps against stray cattlies and dogs; (p) regulating, checking and abating of offensive or dangerous trade or practices; (q) watering public streets and places; (r) cleaning public streets, places and sewers, and all spaces not being private property, which are open to the enjoyment of the public, whether such places are vested in the panchayat or not; removing the noxious vegetation, and abating all public nuisances; (s) extinguishing fires, and protecting life and property when fires occur; (t) removing obstruction and projections in public streets or places, and in spaces not being private property, which are open to the enjoyment of the public, whether such spaces are vested in the panchayat or belong to Government; (u) securing or removing dangerous buildings or places; (v) constructing, altering and maintaining public streets, culverts, panchayat boundary marks, markets, slaughter-houses, latrines, privies urinals, drains, sewers, drainage works, sewage work, baths, washing places, drinking fountains, tanks, wells, dams and the like; (w) obtaining a supply of an additional supply of water, proper and sufficient for preventing danger to the health of the inhabitants from the insufficiency or unwholesomeness of the existing supply when such supply or additional supply can be obtained at a reasonable cost; (x) paying the salary and the contingent expenditure on account of such police or guards as may be required by the panchayats for the purposes of this Act or for the protection of any panchayat property; (y) constructing and maintaining residential quarters for the conservancy staff of the panchayat; 1993 : Guj. 18] Gujarat Panchayats Act, 1993. 111 (z) giving relief and establishing and maintaining relief works in time of famine or scarcity to or for destitute persons within the limits of the Panchayat.