Preamble

The Odisha Gazette

EXTRAORDINARY PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY No. 62 - MLL Dated. 01 January,1956

1(ORISSA ACT 14 OF 1959)

[Received the assent of the Governor on the 12th October, 1959] An act to consolidate and amend the laws relating to irrigation, assessment

and levy of water rate and cess in force in different parts of the State of Orissa.

2(And to provide for the regulation of use of water from Govt. Source.)

Whereas it expedient to consolidate and amend the laws relating to irrigation, assessment and levy of water rate and cess in force in different parts of the State of Orissa 2(and to provide for regulation of use of water from Government Source).

It is hereby enacted by the Legislature of the State of Orissa in the Tenth Year of the Republic of India as follows:

3STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS

Large expenditure has been and is being incurred from the State exchequer for construction of irrigation works in the whole State of Orissa. A large number of minor irrigation works have already been constructed throughout the State under the Intensive Cultivation Scheme at a great cost to the exchequer and large number of minor and medium irrigation projects are under construction and will be constructed according to the plan.

It is necessary that payment of water rates and cess should be made obligatory on persons deriving benefits from the lands within the irrigable command of all these irrigation works whether water is actually used for cultivation or not , and that a fit return should in all cases alike be made to Government, on accounts of the increased profits derivable from lands irrigated by such works, so as to promote economy in the use of water and to create conditions which will make the maintenance and development of the irrigation schemes possible on a larger scale in future. It is also necessary that there should be suitable provisions for the efficient regulation and control of the supply of water from irrigation works and for certain other matters relating to irrigation