(1) With effect from such date and with respect to such Gram or Grams as may be specified by notification, a Gram Panchayat shall endeavour to build and maintain, where it considers necessary, a system of collection, removal and disposal of solid wastes from residential, commercial or institutional buildings.
(2) The Gram Panchayat may provide or appoint in convenient situations, including the situation arising out of any vacant land as a result of set-back of any structure or building, public receptacles, depots or places for the temporary deposit of-
(a) rubbish,
(b) offensive matters,
(c) domestic and trade refuse,
(d) carcasses of dead animals, and
(e) excrementitious and polluted matters.
(3) It shall be the duty of the owners or the occupiers, as the case may be, of all premises to cause all matters referred to in clauses (a) to (e) of sub-rule (2) to be collected from their respective premises and to be deposited in public receptacles, depots or places, provided or appointed under sub-rule (2), at such time and in such manner as the Pradhan may, on giving adequate publicity, specify.
(4) The Gram Panchayat shall make adequate provision for preventing receptacles, depots or places from becoming sources of nuisance.
(5) All matters deposited in public receptacles, depots or places as aforesaid and all solid wastes collected, shall be the property of the Gram Panchayat.