(1) The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, constitute with effective from such date as may be specified in the notification, an authority called the Mizoram Ground Water Authority, State Level Working Group and District Committee as follows.
(a) The Authority shall consist of following members:
(i) Secretary, Public Health Engineering Department - Chairman
(ii) Engineer-in-Chief, Public Health Engineering Department - Member Secretary
(iii) PCCF, Environment, Forest & Climate Change Department - Member
(iv) Regional Director, CGWB, NE India - Member
(v) Chief Engineer, Irrigation & Water Resources Department - Member
(vi) Director, Land Resources Soil & Water Conservation Department- Member
(vii) Director, Directorate of Geology and Mining - Member
(viii) Director, Agriculture Department - Member
(ix) Director, Rural Development Department - Member
(x) Director, Horticulture Department - Member
(xi) Director, AH and Veterinary Department - Member
(xii) Member Secretary, Mizoram State Pollution Control Board - Member
(xiii) Director, Land Revenue and Settlement Department - Member
(xiv) Head of Department, Department of Geology, Mizoram University- Member
(xv) Hydro-geologist, Public Health Engineering Department - Member
(b) State Level Working Group shall consist of the following members.
Chairman : Secretary, PHE Department Member Secretary : Hydrogeologist, PHE Department - 4 - - 5 -Ex-341/2023 Ex-341/2023 Members : Representative from
(i) Environment, Forests & Climate Change Department
(ii) Irrigation & Water Resources Department
(iii) Land Resources Soil & Water Conservation Department
(iv) Agriculture Department
(v) Directorate of Geology and Mining
(vi) Mizoram University
(c) District Committee shall consist of the following members.
Chairman : Deputy Commissioner Member Secretary : Executive Engineer, PHE Department Members : Representative from
(i) Environment, Forests & Climate Change Department.
(ii) Irrigation & Water Resources Department
(iii) Land Resources Soil & Water Conservation Deptt.
(iv) Agriculture Department
(v) Directorate of Geology and Mining
(vi) Rural Development Department
(vii) Horticulture Department
(viii) AH and Veterinary Department
(ix) Land Revenue and Settlement Department
(2) The Authority constituted under sub-section (1) shall be a body corporate having perpetual succession with power to contract, acquire, hold and dispose of property, both movable and immovable and to do all things necessary for the purpose of this Ordinance and may sue and be sued by the said name.