Section 193 in The U.P. Kshettra Panchayats And Zila Panchayats Adhiniyam, 1961
193. Power to require private water-course, etc. to be cleaned or closed.
(1)The Kshettra Panchayat may, and when so required by the Zila Panchayat shall, by notice, require the owner of, or the person having control over a private water-course, spring, tank, well or other place, the water of which is used for drinking, to keep and maintain the same in good repair and to clean the same, from time to time, of silt, refuse or decaying vegetation, and may also require him to protect the same from pollution in such manner as the Kshettra Panchayat may think fit.(2)When the water of any such water-course, spring, tank, well or other place is proved to the satisfaction of the Zila Panchayat or the Kshettra Panchayat to be unfit for drinking, the Zila Panchayat or the Kshettra Panchayat may, by notice, require the owner or person having control thereof to desist from so using such water or permitting others to so use it, and if, after such notice, such water is used by any person for drinking, the Zila Panchayat or the Kshettra Panchayat, as the case may be, may, by notice, require the owner or person having control thereof to close such well, either temporarily or permanently or to enclose or fence such water-course, spring, tank, well or other place in such manner as it may direct so that the water thereof may not be so used.
