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(1) All property within the local limits of the jurisdiction of a Gram Panchayat of the nature hereinafter in this section specified, other than property maintained by the Central or the State Government 01· a local authority or any other Gram Panchaat, shall vest in and belong to the Gram Panchayat, and shall, with all other property of whatsoever nature or kind which may become vested in the Gram Panclayat, be under its direction, management and control, that is to say- (a) all public streets, including the soil, stones and other materials thereof and all drains, bridges, culverts, trees, erections, materials, implenuents and other things provided for such streets ; () all public channels, water courses, spriugs, tanks, ghats, reservoirs, cisterns, wells, aqueducts, conduits, tunnels, pipes, pumps and other water- works, whether made, laid or erected at the cost of the Gram Panchayat or otherwise, and all bridges, buildings, engines, works, materials and things connected therewith, or appertaining· thereto and also any adjacent land (not being private property) appertaining to any public- tank: Provided that water pipes and any water-works con- nected therewith or appertaining thereto which with the consent of the Gram Panchayat are laid or set up in any street by the owners of any mill, factory, dockyard, workshop or the like primarily for the use of their employees shall not be deemed to be public water-works by reason of their use by the public; (c) all public sewers and drains, and all works, materials and things appertaining thereto and other con- servancy works : Provided that for the purpose 0£ enlarging, deepening or otherwise repairing or maintaining any such sewer or drain the sub-soil appertaining thereto- shall also be deemed to vest in the Gram Panchayat: Provided also that where any installation or work for- the treatment or disposal of sewage is construct- ed by the owners of any mill, factory, dockyard, workshop or the like primarily for the use of their umployees, the laying of sewers and other things appertaining thereto in a street, with the The West Bengal Panchaya.t Act, 1956. U o! 1957.] (Part I.- Chapter II.Property of Gram Panchayat. Sections 62, 63.) 31 consent of the Gram Panchayat. shall not by virtue of this clause or by reason of their use by the public cause such installation or sewers or works appertaining thereto to vest in the Gram lanchayat; d) all sewage, rubbish and ofrensive matter deposited on streets or collected by the Gram Panchayat from streets, latrines, urinals, sewers, cesspools and other places; e) all public lamps, lamp-posts and apparatus connect- ed therewith or appertaining thereto; and (/) all buildings erected by the Gram Panchayat and all lands and buildings or other property trans- ferred to the Gram Panchayat by the Central or the State Government or acquired by gift, pur- ~ha1<e or otherwise for local public purposes. (2) The State Government. may, by notification, exclude any street, bridge, sewer or drain from the operation of this Act or of any specifed section of this Act: Provided that, if tho cost of the construction of the work shall have been paid from the Gram Parchayat Fund, suc work shall not be excluded from the operation of this Act or any specified section of this Act except after consideration of the views of the GrOJm Panclzayat at a meeting. ·