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(1) Where the Calcutta Metropolitan Development Authority is satisfied that any direction given by it under sub-section (1) of section 24 with regard to any development project has not been carried out by the authority referred to therein or that any such authority is unable to fully implement any scheme undertaken by it for the development of any part of the Calcutta Metropolitan Area, the Calcutta Metropolitan Development Authority may itself undertake the works and incur any expenditure for the execution of such development projects or implementation of such schemes, as the case may be. (2) The Calcutta Metropolitan Development Authority may also undertake any works in the Calcutta Metropolitan Area as may be directed by the State Government and may incur such expenditure as may be necessary for the execution of such work. (3) Where any work is undertaken by the Calcutta Metropolitan Development Authority under sub-section (1), it shall be deemed to be, for the purposes of any law for the time being in force, that authority referred to in sub-section (1) of section 24. (4) The Calcutta Metropolitan Development Authority may, for the purpose of carrying out the powers conferred by sub-sections (1) and (2), undertake survey of any area within the Calcutta Metropolitan Area and for that purpose it shall be lawful for any officer of the Calcutta Metropolitan Development Authority— (a) to enter in or upon any land and to take level of such land; (b) to dig or bore into the sub-soil; (c) to mark levels and boundaries by placing marks and cutting trenches; (d) where otherwise the survey cannot be completed and levels taken and boundaries marked, to cut down and clear away any part of any standing crop, fence or jungle: Provided that before entering upon any land the Calcutta Metropolitan Development Authority shall give notice of its intention to do so in such manner as may be specified in the regulations made under this Act. 121 Power of the Calcutta Metropolitan Development Authority to give directions. Power of the Calcutta Metropolitan Development Authority to execute any plan. The West Bengal Town and Country (Planning and Development) Act, 1979. [West Ben. Act Delegation. Amendment of the Calcutta Improvement Act, 1911, the Howrah Improvement Act. 1956, and the Calcutta Metropolitan Water and Sanitation Authority Act, 1966. (Chapter IV—Calcutta Metropolitan Development Authority— Sections 26, 27.—Chapter V.—Preparation of prsent Land Use Map.—Sections 28, 29.)