Preamble

Preamble. PREAMBLE WHEREAS it is found that the full irrigation potential available by the various projects and works undertaken by the Government, is not being taken advantage of by cultivators in the State;

AND WHEREAS it is found that sometimes a few cultivators, who do not want water and will not allow water-courses to pass through their lands, hold up or make ineffective or prevent the irrigation of other fields for which cultivators require water, and in this manner are preventing the irrigation of large areas and tracts;

AND WHEREAS this has resulted in the progress of agriculture being retarded, to the detriment of the general economic situation in the State, and resulting in particulars in the shortage of foods, and other agricultural products;

AND WHEREAS it is now necessary in the interest of the general public, to provide that in those areas where cultivators are not taking advantage of the irrigation potential provided or available, or who are prevented from so taking advantage as aforesaid, schemes should be framed for the compulsory construction of water-courses in those areas, so as to provide for the proper irrigation of the whole of the areas, and also provide that persons through whose lands water-courses are so constructed maintain them and keep them in good repair;

AND WHEREAS for the aforesaid purposes, and matters connected therewith, it is necessary further to amend the laws relating to irrigation in force in the State; It is hereby enacted in the Fifteenth Year of the Republic of India as follows :-