The Commissioner, Deputy Commissioner, or any officer of the Government authorised by the Government by a general or special order, shall have power, --

(a) to enter on and inspect, or cause to be entered on and inspected, any immovable property occupied by any municipal council or any institution under its control or management, or any work in progress under it or under its direction;

(b) to call for any extract from the proceedings of any municipal councilor of any committee, or for any book or document in the possession of or under the control of a municipal council, and any return, statement, account, or report which he may think fit to require such municipal council to furnish;

(c) to require any information or explanation which an auditor can require under sub-section (1) of section 291;

(d) to require a municipal council to take into its consideration any objection which appears to him to exist to the doing of anything which is about to be done or is being done by such municipal council or any information which he is able to furnish and which appears to him to necessitate the doing of a certain thing by the municipal council, and to make a written replay to him within a reasonable time stating its reasons for not desisting from doing, or for not doing, such thing.