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(l) Whenevei- it appears to the State Government that any drainage work excluding field drain is necessary in the interest of public health, or for improvement of any land or for the proper cultivation ox: irrigation thereof‘ér' that protection‘from floods or other accumu- lation of Water or injurious salts or"from erosibn by a river, is required for any lands, the Staté Government may by'nOtification declare that the drainage work shall ’be 'constructed after a day to be named in the said notification, not being earlier than three months from the date thereof. (2) As soon as practicable after the issue of a notification under sub—section (1), the DiviSionaI Canal Oflicer or any ofiieer duly empowered under this Act shall cause public notiee to be given at convenient places, Stating that the State Government intends to cbnstrbet the) drainage work excluding field drain referred to in subésectioq (l). ‘ " ' ' (3.),- The provisions contained in Sections ll and 12 regarding the acquisition of land for the consuuction of work shall apply, mutat/s mutandis, to" the construction of drainage work referred to. m sub—sectionfifl); ' ' 65’. (1) Notwithstanding anything'contained to the contrary in subsection (1) of section. 64, the Divisional Canal Officer may cause a scheme for field drains to be, drawn up. * (2) Every scheme drawn. up under sub-sectiotl (1) amongsts other matters set out the “estimated cost thereof, the alignment. ot‘ the 'proposed'fiel’d drain or realignment of the existing field drain, as the case may be, the particulars of the owners or occupiers to 29 he bencfitted and other persons who may be affected thereby and xkctch plan of‘ the area proposed to be covered by the scheme. (3) The provisions contained in Sections 14, 15 and 17 to 20 almll apply mutatis mutandis to the scheme drawn up for field timins. (4) The Divisional Canal Ofi‘icer may construct the field drains on behalf of the owners or occupiers and recover the cost pro-rata l'mm the owners or occupiers. CHAPTER IX AWARD OF COMPENSATION