THE CANAL & DRAINAGE

ACT

CONTENTS

PART II
OF THE APPLICATION OF WATER FOR PUBLIC PURPOSES

i) notification to issue when water-supply is to be applied for public purposes

ii) powers of Canal officers

PART III
OF THE CONSTRUCTION & MAINTENANCE OF WORK

i) Power to enter and survey, etc.

ii) Provincial Government to provide means of crossing canals
iii) Persons using water-course to construct works for passing water across
road, etc.
iv) Adjustment of claims between persons jointly using water-course.
v) Special powers of Divisional Canal Officer to initiate cases under
Section 20
vi) Cutting of supply for any land not being irrigated.
vii) Application for acquisition of land and construction of works
thereafter.
viii) Procedure of Canal Officer thereupon.
ix) Collector, Commissioner and a Canal Officer to have powers of Civil
Courts, etc.

PART V
OF WATER RATES
i) Liability when water is unauthorizedly taken from canal or water-
course.
ii) Owner’s Rate
iii) Amount of owner’s rate.

RECOVERY OF CHARGES

i) Lambardars may be required to collect canal.

ii) Recovery of fines for offences in navigating canals.

PART VII
OF DRAINAGE

i) Power to prohibit obstruction or order their removal.

ii) Power to remove obstruction after prohibition.
iii) Preparation of schemes for works of improvement.
iv) Power to person employed on such schemes.
v) Recovery of rates.
 PART VIII
OF OBTAINING LABOUR FOR CANAL AND DRAINAGE WORKS

i) Definition of “Labourer”

PART IX
OF JURISDICTION

i) Powers of Canal Officer to restore interrupted supply

ii) Power to summon and examine witnesses.

PART X
OF OFFENCES AND PENALITIES

i) Offences under the Act

ii) Power to arrest without warrant.
iii) Definition of “Canal”

PART XI
OF SUBSIDIARY RULES

i) The Canal and Drainage (West Pakistan Amendment) Act.

ii) (Canal and Drainage Act). On Construction and Maintenance of Work.
iii) Rules for the Remodeling of Channels & Outlets required for the
Distribution of Reclamation Supplies.
iv) Instructions on Survey.
v) Role of Canal Officers
vi) Reclamation of Thur Lands.
vii) Instruction of the Guidance of Canal Officer in the Preparation and
Modification of Warabandis.
viii) Principal Crops Grown on the Canals in the Punjab.
ix) Rules for Extra Supply of Canal Water for Gardens and Orchards.
x) Agreement for Special supply of water for Fruit Orchards.
xi) Instruction on deposit work.
xii) Judicial Powers for Canal Officers.
xiii) Cropwise water rates for cropped area.
xiv) Natural Channels, Lakes and Collection of Waters under the Punjab
Minor Canals Act, 1905 with Rules.
xv) Typical Chak Plan
xvi) Location Map.
xvii) Instruction on acquisition of land for repair to banks of Canal.
xviii) Command Statement.
xix) Capacity Statement.
xx) Inclusion of New areas.
xxi) Areas receiving irrigation prior to 1950.
xxii) Sanction of canal water supply to new areas of existing canals.
xxiii) Form for Application of water.
xxiv) Land Revenue Act, 1967.
xxv) Closure of and special charges for unauthorized Irrigation from
damaged outlet.
xxvi) Charges for unauthorized Irrigation and waste of water.
xxvii) Breaches.
xxviii) Cuts.
xxix) Instructions on Co-operation between police and Punjab Department.
xxx) Payments on Master Rolls
xxxi) Agreement with Contractors.
xxxii) Instruction / Hints for Warabandi Preparation.
xxxiii) Powers of Sub-Divisional Canal Officer to all Assistant Land
Reclamation Officers.
 REVENUE MANUAL

CONTENTS

GENERAL

i) Canal Patwari
ii) Halqa
iii) Crops Year
iv) Khasrah
v) Shudkar
vi) Demand statement or Khatauni
vii) Parcha Kasht
viii) Lambardar.
ix) Shajrah
x) Monthly Irrigation Operation Statement.
xi) Lal Kitab.
xii) Najaiz and Abzai Register.
xiii) Statement of Doubtful Irrigation
xiv) Tanzajaat.

PATWARI
Introduction. Chapter - I

i) Purpose for which entertained

ii) Principal duties
iii) Charge or “halqa”
iv) Personal register of Canal Patwaris and Mirabs.
v) Patwari responsible for the “Shudkar Khasrah”
vi) Method of making ‘shudkar’ entries.
vii) Waste Water and unauthorized irrigation.
viii) Preliminary abstract of irrigation by villages and water-course.
ix) Parchas

Chapter – II

THE ZILLADAR

i) Purpose for which entertained and principal duties.

ii) Qualifications
iii) Checking initial record of irrigation ‘shudkar’
iv) Signing ‘shudkar’ entries.
v) Basis of water-rates
vi) Completion and checking of ‘ khataunis’
vii) Gauge and Discharge Registers.
viii) Zilladar to investigate all cases of waste of water and unauthorized
irrigation.
ix) Weekly weather report from Zilladar.
 Chapter – III

THE DEPUTY COLLECTOR

i) Position of Deputy Collector.

ii) General scope of Duties.

Chapter – IV

ZILLADAR’S READER

i) Purpose for which entertained

ii) Selection for Divisional Venacular Clerks.

Chapter – V

ASSESSMENT CLERK
&
ASSISTANT ASSESSMENT CLERK.

i) Purpose of Assessment Clerk and his Office.

ii) Final check of khataunis in Divisional Office.
iii) Duty of the Assessment Clerk at the end of each crop.
iv) To maintain Irrigation Register.
v) The Assistant Assessment Clerk.

Chapter – VI
SUB-DIVISIONAL OFFICER

i) Increased importance of the Sub-Divisional Officer.

ii) Duties briefly described.
iii) Importance of Sub-Divisional Officer being accessable to the cultivators.
iv) Checking measuring.
v) Selection of village to check measured
vi) Irrigation Register.

Chapter – VII
THE DIVISONAL OFFICER

i) Qualification needed in a Divisional Officer.

ii) Relation between Divisional and Sub-Divisional Officers.
iii) Duty of Divisional Officer to train Sub-Divisional Officers.
iv) Necessity for watching the work of the Revenue Staff.
v) Checking Irrigation.
vi) Remissions under Rule 25 of the Canal Act.
 Chapter – 9
THE DIVISIONAL REVENUE CLERK

i) Purpose of Revenue Clerk.

ii) Compilation of Register in Form II, II-A and IV.
iii) English Office returns to be compiled by the R3evenue Clerk.

Chapter – 10
THE LAMBARDAR

i) Appointment and Fees of Lambardars

ii) Duties of Lambardars.

Chapter – 12
BONUS TO PATWARIS
&
MIRABS

i) Bonus that may be earned by Patwari.

ii) System of marking.
iii) System of marking.
iv) Arrangements for keeping the record of marks
v) Register of marks to be submitted to the Deputy Collector, Reclamation.

Chapter – 13
REVENUE
&
WATER-SUPPLY

i) Record and Check of outlets

 SCHEMES FOR TRANSFER OF
IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT TO FOs

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Sr. No Contents Page No.

1 Preamble ii

2 Section – A 1
Scheme for Transfer of Irrigation Management to Farmers Organizations
3 Section –A 16
Legal and Regulatory Framework for FOs.
4 Section –C 17
Operation and Maintenance Standards and Guidelines for FOs.
5 PIDA Act 1997 32
6 PIDA (Area Water Board) Rules, 2010. 42
7 PIDA Area Water Board (Conduct of Business) 51
8 PIDA Area Water Board (Elections)
9 PIDA Area Water Board (Conduct of Meeting)
10 PIDA (Farmers Organization
11 PIDA Farmers Organization (Conduct of Business)
12 PIDA Farmers Organization (Financial) 2011 115
13 PIDA Farmers Organization (Election)
14 PIDA Farmers Organization (Registration)
15 Irrigation Management Transfer (IMT) Agreement – Amended
16 Important Notifications