law: Land Improvement Loans Act, 1883
  
  4.Purposes for which loans may be granted under this Act.:-
  (1) Subject to such
  
  rules as may be made under section 10, loans may be granted under this Act, by
  
  such officer as may from time to time, be empowered in this behalf by the State
  
  Government for the purpose of making any improvement to any person having a
  
  right to make that improvement, or with the consent of that person, to any
  
  other person.
  (2)
  
  "Improvement" means any work which adds to the letting value of land,
  
  and includes the following namely:---
  (a)
  
  the construction of wells, tanks and other works for the storage, supply or
  
  distribution of water for the purposes of agriculture, or for the use of men
  
  and cattle employed in agriculture;
  (b)
  
  the preparation of land for irrigation;
  (c)
  
  the drainage, reclamation from rives or other waters, or protection from floods
  
  or from erosion or other damage by water, of land used for agricultural
  
  purposes or wasteland which is cultivable ;
  (d)
  
  the reclamation, clearance, enclosure or permanent improvement of land for
  
  agricultural purposes;
  (e)
  
  the renewal or reconstruction of any of the foregoing works, or alterations
  
  therein or additions thereto; and
  (f)
  
  such other works as the State Government {The words "with the previous
  
  sanction of the G.G.in C." rep.by 
  
  Act 8 of 1906, s.2.} may, from time to time, by notification in the Official
  
  Gazette, declare to be improvements for the purposes of this Act.