(1) If a notice served on the owner of a hut, other structure or land under section 6, section 7 or section 8 is not complied with, within the time specified therein, the prescribed authority may cause the work specified in the said notice to be done.
(2) All expenses incurred by the prescribed authority in causing any work to be done under sub-section (1), together with interest thereon at the rate of six per centum per annum from the date on which the demand for payment of such expenses is made until such payment, may be recovered by it from the owner of the hut, other structure or land as if they were a public demand.
Improvement 10. (1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the prescribed authority schemes. may prepare such improvement schemes for the purpose of effecting such works of improvement as it may consider necessary in respect of any slum area and publish a copy of such schemes in such manner as may be prescribed.
66 The West Bengal Slum Areas (Improvement and Clearance) Act, 1972.
X of 1972.]
(Section 11.)
(2) The improvement schemes prepared under sub-section (1) shall indicate the manner in which environmental improvements shall be carried out in the slum area, and may provide for all or any of the following matters, namely :—
(a) water supply, whether from any existing main belonging to a local authority or otherwise;
(b) drainage and sewerage, whether to be connected with any existing channel or sewer main in the locality or otherwise;
(c) construction of latrines connected either with the sewer mains or any septic tanks;
(d) sewage and garbage disposal;
(e) raising, lowering or levelling any land in the slum area;
(I) lighting and paving of footways, passages and pathways;
(g) improvement of huts or other structures; and
(h) such other matters as may be considered necessary for carrying out the objects of this Act.