Contracts may be made in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter where by the Government undertakes to construct water-courses and to bear the cost of construction and the permanent holders of Irrigable land undertake to maintain them and to bear the cost of maintenance Such contracts are called "water Course contracts".
66. Scope of water-course contracts.
(a) Shall relate to the construction of water-courses the irrigation of all irrigable land in a village, mahal chak cultivated with one or more specified crops; a
(b) Shall be made with the permanent holders of all such land in a village mahal or chak;
Provided that, when not less than one-half of such permanent holders, holding not less than two-thirds of all such land, have given their consent to a water-course contract in accordance with provisions of this Chapter, the proposed contract, if accept, by Government shall be deemed to be a water Course contra made with the permanent holders of all irrigable land in the village Mahal or chak cultivated with such crop Or crops.
Section-67,68] M. P. Irrigation Act, 1931 [47