(1) Every Panchayat shall submit annually to the prescribed authority a report on the administration of the Panchayat during the previous year.
(2) The report shall bt prepared by the wSarpanch and alter it is approved by the Panchayat shall be forwarded to the prescribed authority with a copy of the resolution of the Panchayat thereon.
CHAPTER V CONTROL OP PANCHAYATS
49. Any officer authorised by the Administrator (in this Chapter and in Chapter VI referred to as 'the authorised Officer') shall have power - ed to call for—
(i) any extract from the proceedings of a Panchayat, or any book, record, correspondence or document in the possession or under the control of a Panchayat ; or
(ii) any return, plan, estimate, statement, account or report, for the purpose of inspection or examination; and
(b) to require a Panchayat to take into consideration—
(i) any objection which appears to the said officer to exist to the doing of anything which is about to be done or is being done by such Panchayat ; or
(ii) any information which the said officer is able to furnish and which appears to him to necessitate the doing of a certain thing by the Panchayat, and to make a written reply to him, within a reasonable time, stating its reasons for not desisting from doing or for not doing such things.
50. If, at any time, it appears to the authorised officer that a Panchayat has made wilful and persistent default in the performance oi any duty imposed on it by this Regulation, he may, by order in writing, fix a period for the performance of that duty and if the duty is not performed within the period so fixed, the authorised officer may appoint any person to perform it and direct that the expenses of the performance of the duty shall be paid by the defaulting Panchayat within such period as he may think fit.
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51. (I) If, in the opinion of the authorised officer, the execution of any order or resolution of a Panchayat or the doing of anything which is about to be done or is being done by or on behalf of a Panchayat is causing or is likely to cause injury or annoyance to the public or to lead to a breach of the peace or is unlawful, he may, by order in writing, suspend the execution or prohibit the doing thereof.
(2) When the authorised officer makes an order under sub-section
(1), he shall forthwith send to the Panchayat affected thereby a copy of the order together with a statement of the reasons for making it.
(3) The authorised officer shall forthwith submit to such authority as may be specified by notification by the Administrator a report of the circumstances in which the order was made under this section and that authority may, after giving notice to the Panchayat and making such inquiry as that authority deems fit, rescind, modify or confirm the order.