10. Authorities who may be specified for implementing the provisions of this Act.—The State
Government may confer such powers and impose such duties on a District Magistrate as may be
necessary to ensure that the provisions of this Act are properly carried out and the District Magistrate may
specify the officer, subordinate to him, who shall exercise all or any of the powers, and perform all or any
of the duties, so conferred or imposed and the local limits within which such powers or duties shall be
carried out by the officer so specified.
11. Duty of District Magistrate and other officers to ensure credit.—The District Magistrate
authorised by the State Government under section 10 and the officer specified by the District Magistrate
under that section shall, as far as practicable, try to promote the welfare of the freed bonded labourer by
securing and protecting the economic interests of such bonded labourer so that he may not have any
occasion or reason to contract any further bonded debt.
12. Duty of District Magistrate and officers authorised by him.—It shall be the duty of every
District Magistrate and every officer specified by him under section 10 to inquire whether, after the
commencement of this Act, any bonded labour system or any other form of forced labour is being
enforced by, or on behalf of, any person resident within the local limits of his jurisdiction and if, as a
result of such inquiry, any person is found to be enorcing the bonded labour system or any other system
of forced labour, he shall forthwith take such action as may be necessary to eradicate the enforcement of
such forced labour.