5[(1) There shall be a managing committee for every Distributory Committee consisting of all the members of the General Body.]
6[Provided that all Presidents of the Mandal Parishads within the distributory area nominated by the District Collector shall be the members of the Managing Committee of the Distributory Committee without voting rights, in the manner prescribed.]
7[(2) The District Collector shall cause arrangements for the election of the President and Vice-President from among the members of the Managing Committee of the Distributory Committee, in the manner prescribed:
8[Provided that where the election of the President or Vice President could could not succeed, the Government may, by notification, appoint any of the managing committee member of the distributory committee or any of the officer, to exercise the powers and perform the functions of the President or Vice President, as the case may be.]]
1.Substituted by the Act No.4 of 2018, S.4.
2. Substituted by the Act No.4 of 2018, S.4.
3. Substituted by the Act No. 7 of 2003, S.5.
4. Inserted by the Act No.7 of 2003, S.6.
5. Substituted by the Act No. 7 of 2003, S.6.
6. Added by the Act No. 39 of 2005, S.3.
7. Substituted by the Act No. 7 of 2003, S.6.
8. Substituted by the Act No.4 of 2018, S.5.
(3) 1[XXXX] 2[(4) The term of office of the President, the Vice-President and the members of the Managing Committee of the Distributory Committee shall, if not recalled or removed or disqualified under the provisions of the Act earlier, be coterminus with the term of the general body specified in sub-section (3) of section 5.]
(5) The managing committee shall exercise the powers and perform the functions of the distributory committee.
7. Delineation of Project area and constitution of Project Committee –
(1) The Government may by notification and in accordance with the rules made under this Act, in this behalf, delineate every command area or part thereof, of an irrigation system and declare it to be a project area for the purposes of this Act.
(2) There shall be a project committee called by its distinct name for every project area declared under sub-section (1).
3[(3) In Major Irrigation Systems, all the Presidents of the Distributory Committees in the Project Area, so long as they hold such office, shall constitute the general body of the Project Committee:
Provided that such Project Committee shall have a minimum strength of five members.
(4) In the Medium Irrigation Systems, all the Presidents of the Water Users‟ Association in the project area, so long as they hold such office, shall constitute the general body of the Project Committee:
Provided that such Project Committee shall have a minimum strength of five members.]