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Power to impress labor in emergency.- (1) Whenever It appears to the Executive Engineer, or to any Sub-Divisional Officer acting under his general or special orders in this behalf, that, unless Section-36] M.P.IrrigationAct,1931 [19 some work is immediately executed, such serious damage will happen or continue to any canal as is likely to cause or continue to cause serious public injury or serious interruption of the normal course of irrigation -and the labor necessary for the proper execution thereof cannot be obtained in the ordinary manner In time to prevent such Injury or Interruption or to remedy It within a reasonable time. -The Executive Engineer, or any Sub-Divisional Officer acting under the said orders, may, by public proclamation by beat of drum, require every permanent holder and occupier of irrigable land resident In any village within five miles (8 km) of the place where the work is to be executed, and every agricultural laborer employed by them, to attend In person at such place and to carry out such duties as may be allotted to them. (2) If, in the opinion of the Executive Engineer, or of any Sub- Divisional Officer acting under the said orders, the amount of labor likely to attend in pursuance of an order under sub section (1) is not sufficient, he may at any time In like manner and subject to the same conditions issue a like order requiring the attendance of all cultiva10rs or of all agricultural laborers or of both resident within five miles (8 km) of the place where the work is to be executed. (3) The rates of wages to be paid for such work shall not exceed those current in the neighborhood for similar work, and any person attending in compliance with the proclamation shall be paid for the whole period during which he is thereby prevented from following his ordinary occupation. (4) No person shall be required to carry out any duties under this section for which such person is unfit by reason of age, sex or bodily informity or social position Section-37-A] M.P.IrrigationAct,1931 [20 Chapter V The Supply of Water from Canals and Charges there for.