Delineation of Project area and constitution of Project Committee

(1) The Government may by notification and in accordance with the rules made under this Act, in this behalf, delineate every command area or part thereof, of an irrigation system and declare it to be a project area for the purposes of this Act. (2) There shall be a project committee called by its distinct name for every project area declared under sub-section (1). (3) In Major Irrigation Systems, all the Presidents of the Distributory Committees in the Project Area, so long as they hold such office, shall constitute the general body of the Project Committee: Provided that such Project Committee shall have a minimum strength of five members. (4) In the Medium Irrigation Systems, all the Presidents of the Water Users’ Association in the project area, so long as they hold such office, shall constitute the general body of the Project Committee: