Irrigation agreements
(a) Shall be for the Irrigation of one or more specified crops.
Which are called, “crops under agreement";
(b) Shall be made with the permanent holders of all irrigable land in a village, mahal or chak cultivated with he crops under agreement; and Section-46-47] M. P. Irrigation Act, 1631 [28
(c) When duly made in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter, shall be binding to the terms of the agreement, on the permanent holders and occupiers of (i) all irrigable land in the village, mahal or chak under cultivation with the crops under agreement at the time from which the agreement has effect or at any time during two years prior thereto,
Provided that where a scheme of consolidation has been confirmed in respect of any land under the provisions of the Madhya Pradesh Consolidation of Holdings Act, 1928 (No.8 of 1928), the irri action agreements shall, from the year in which the permanent holders and occupiers, if any, are put into possession of the holdings: -
(a) Be binding on the permanent holders and occupiers if any of all cultivable land newly received in exchange for land which has ceased to be under cultivation; and
(b) Ceased to be binding on the permanent holders and occupiers, if any, at all land which has ceased to be under cultivation;
(ii) All land described in sub-clause (i) together with such land as may be cultivated with the crops under agreement et any time during the period of the agreement.
Land of the permanent holders and occupiers whereof an agreement is binding is called" land under agreement ".