Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) Whenever it appears to the 1[State] Government that it is desirable that measures should be taken in the bed of any cho for the purpose of— (a) regulating the flow of water within, and preventing the widening or extension of, such bed, or of; (b) reclaiming or protecting any land situate within the limits of such bed; such Government, may, either proceed at once in manner in sub- section (2) provided, or in the first instance, by notification specifying the nature and extent of the measure to be taken and the locality in and the time within which such measures are to be so taken, require all persons possessing proprietary or occupancy rights in land situate in such locality to themselves carry out the measures specified in such notification accordingly. (2) If the whole or any part of the bed of any cho be unclaimed, or, if, in the opinion of the 1[State] Government the measures deemed necessary under sub-section (1) are of such a character, in regard to