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Power of the Government to call for records and to cause inspection to be made.- (1) The Government, in consultation with Greater Bengaluru Authority, may at any time require the City Corporation or the Commissioner,- (a) to produce any record, proceedings, correspondence, plan, or other document; (b) to furnish any return, plan, estimate, statement, account or statistics relating to the proceedings, duties or works of the City Corporation or any of the City Corporation authority; and (c) to furnish or obtain and furnish, any report. (2) Any officer of the Government authorized by the Government or the Commissioner, respectively, shall have power,- (a) to enter on, and inspect, or cause to be entered on and inspect any immovable property occupied by the City Corporation or any institution under its control or management or any work in progress under it or in its direction; (b) to call for any extract from a proceeding of the City Corporation or of any committee or from any book or document in the possession of, or under the control of City Corporation; and (c) to require the City Corporation to take into consideration any objection which appears to him to exist, to the doing of anything which is about to be done or is being done by such City Corporation or, any information which he is able to furnish and which appears to him to necessitate the doing of a certain thing by City Corporation and to make a written reply to him within a reasonable time, stating its reasons for not desisting from doing or not doing such thing. (3) The City Corporation and every City Corporation authority and all City Corporation officers and other City Corporation employees shall be bound to afford the officer authorized under sub-section (2) access at all reasonable time to the premises and properties of the City Corporation and to all records, accounts and other documents, the inspection of which he may consider necessary to enable him to discharge his duties. (4) The officer authorized under sub-section (2) may, after such inspection, make a report to the Government.