At least one month in advance of each crop season, e Executive Engineer

At least one month in advance of each crop season, e Executive Engineer shall invite a meeting of all the Irrigation inspectors, Sub-Engineers, Sarpanchas & prominent occupiers of e land of the irrigated area, and after acquainting them of the water storage position of various tanks, and reservoirs providing the facilities of canal irrigation, determine with their consultation the area which can be brought under canal irrigation. On determination of the total area the Executive Engineer sha1', locate area to be irrigated by each distributary of the canal, publish the area so allocated to each distributaries for general Information on or before the dates prescribed in column (3) of the statement provided in rule 98 regarding short term agreement. The publication shall be made in Form 12.