(i) Minister, Irrigation Department – Chairman;
(ii) Five persons from amongst the Chairman of the Project Committees;
(iii) Two persons from the Local Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) who are active in water management and agricultural activities ;
(iv) Three persons from Officers not below the rank of Secretary or Chief Engineer from the Irrigation and/or Agriculture Department;
(v) The elected Gaon Panchayat President of the Gaon Panchayat as Ex-officio Member;
(vi) The Members may be increased by such numbers as may be considered by the Government.
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(2) The Committee, constituted under sub-section (1) may exercise such powers and functions as may be necessary to-
(a) laydown the policies for implementation of the provision of this Act,
(b) give such directions to any farmers' organization as may be considered necessary, in exercising their powers and performing their functions in accordance with the provisions of this Act.
Procedure for recall.
10.
(1) A motion for recall of a Chairman or President or a Managing Committee, as the case may be, of a farmers' organization may be made by giving a written notice as may be prescribed, signed by not less than one third of the total number of members of the farmers organization who are entitled to vote:
Provided that no notice of motion under this section shall be made within one year of the date of assumption of office by the person against whom the motion is sought to be moved.
(2) If the motion is carried with the support of majority of the members present and voting at a meeting of the General Body specially convened for the purpose, the District Collector or the Government as the case may be, shall by order remove him from office and resulting vacancy shall be filled in the same manner as a casual vacancy.
Constitution of sub-committee in farmers' organisation.
11.
The Managing Committee of farmers' organization may constitute sub-committees to carry out all or any of the functions vested in each organisation under this Act.
Farmers' organisation to be a body corporate.
12.
Every farmers' organisation shall be a body corporate with a distinct name having perpetual succession and a common seal and subject to the provisions of this Act vested with the capacity of entering into contracts and of doing all things necessary proper or expedient for which it is constituted and it shall sue or be sued in its corporate name represented by the Chairman or the President as the case may be:
Provided that no farmers' organisation shall have the power to alienate in any manner any property vested to it.
10 Changes in farmers' organisation.
13.
The Government may in the interest of the farmers' organisation in the command area by the notification and in accordance with the rules made in this behalf -
(a) form a new farmers' organisation by separating the area from any farmers' organisation,
(b) increase the area of any farmers' organisation,
(c) dimish the area of any farmers' organisation,
(d) alter the boundaries of any farmers' organization, or
(e) cancel a notification issued under this Act or rectifying any mistake:
Provided that no such separation, increase, diminution, alteration and cancellation shall be effected unless a reasonable opportunity is given to the organisation likely to be affected.
Qualification of candidates or members.
14.
No village employee and no officer or employee of the Government of India or any State Government or of local authority or an employee of an institution receiving aid from the funds of the Government shall be qualified for being chosen as or for being a Chairman or President or a member of the Managing Committee.
Explanation- I
(1) For the purpose of this Section the expression village employee means in relation to the State of Assam any person who holds any of the village offices such as Gaon Panchayat, Mahkuma Parishad or any such village office by whatever designation it may be locally known.
(2) No person who has been convicted by a criminal court for any offence committed under any law for the time being in force involving moral turpitude shall be qualified for being chosen or for being a Chairman or President or a member of a Managing Committee.
(3) A person shall be disqualified for being chosen as a Chairman or a President or a member of the Managing Committee if on the date fixed for scrutiny of nominations for election or on the date of nomination he is-
(a) of unsound mind and stands so declared by a competent court.
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(b) a defaulter of land revenue or water tax or charges payable either to the Government or to the farmers' organisation.
(c) interested in a subsisting contract made with or any work being done for, Gaon Panchayat or any State or Central Government or the farmers' organisation or Water Users' Association:
Provided that a person shall not be deemed to have any interest in such contract or work by reason only of his having share or interest in-
(i) a company as a mere share holder but not as a Director, or
(ii) any lease, sale or purchase of immoveable property or any agreement for the same, or
(iii) any agreement for the loan of money or any security for the payment of money only, or
(iv) any newspaper in which any advertisement relating to the affairs of the farmers' organisation is inserted.
Explanation-II For removal of doubt it is hereby declared that where a contract is fully performed, it shall not be deemed to be subsisting merely on the ground that the Gram Panchayat the farmers' organisation, the State or Central Government has not performed its part of the contractual obligation.
(4) A Chairman or a President or a member of Managing Committee shall also become disqualified to continue in office, if he –
(a) is convicted in a criminal case involving moral turpitude, or
(b) remains absent for three consecutive meeting without reasonable cause:
Provided that such disqualification under item (b) shall not apply in the case of women who are in an advanced stage of pregnancy and for a period of three months after delivery.
12 Filling up of vacancies.