Section 80. Superintendence of embankments.

The prescribed authority may–– (a) cause any embankment which adjoins or connects public embankments, or forms by junction with them part of a line of embankments, or is necessary for the protection of the neighbouring land, to be taken charge of and kept up by the Government ; (b) cause any private embankment or other structure which endangers the stability of a public embankment or obstructs the beneficial drainage of the concerned area to be removed ; (c) change, when necessary, the line of any public embankment or make a new embankment ; (d) enlarge any public embankment after acquiring land, if necessary, under the State Land Acquisition Act, Samvat 1990 and do all acts necessary and proper for the maintenance thereof ; (e) forbid raising of, or alterations to, an embankment ; (f) allow the construction of a private embankment of approved plan and design within a specified period ; and (g) enter upon any land and use it to control a flood or breach of an embankment.