Qualifications for Chairperson, other Members and Special Invitees of Authority.

1[4. Qualifications for Chairperson, other Members and Special Invitees of Authority.- (1) The Chairperson, the Members and Special Invitees of the Authority shall be appointed as follows :-

1. (a) The Chairperson shall be a person who is or who was the Officer of the State Government of the Rank of Chief Secretary to the State Government or equivalent thereto or Retired High Court Judge;
2. (b) One Member shall be expert from the field of water resources engineering;
3. (c) One Member shall be expert from the field of economics;
4. (d) One Member shall be expert from the field of groundwater management;
5. (e) One Member shall be expert from the field of law; and
6. (f) Five Special Invitees as may be prescribed shall be, one from each River Basin Agency area, having adequate knowledge, experience or proven capacity in dealing with the problems relating to water resources engineering, agriculture, ecology and environment, drinking water, industry, law, economics, commerce, finance or management for assisting the Authority : Provided that, at least one Special Invitee shall be a woman : Provided further that, no two Special Invitees shall be from the same field or group of fields.

1. (2) (a) The Chairperson of the Authority shall be the person of ability, integrity and standing.
   • (b) The Members of the Authority shall be persons of ability, integrity and standing who have adequate knowledge of, experience in, and proven capacity in, dealing with problems relating to their respective fields : Provided that, the Members and experts mentioned in clauses (b) to (f) of sub-section (1) of section 4 shall have minimum educational qualification of bachelor's degree of any recognized university or institute and experience of not less than twenty years with proven track record in their respective fields.
2. (3) The Chairperson or any other Member of the Authority shall not hold any other office of profit.
3. (4) No person shall be appointed as the Chairperson or other Member, if he has attained the age of sixty-seven years.]