Section 8 in Rajasthan Farmers' Participation in Management of Irrigation System Act, 2000
8. Delineation of Project Area and constitution of Project Committee.
(1)The Government may, by notification, 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 local name for every project area declared under sub-section (1).(3)All the Presidents of the Disbributary Committees in the project area, so long as they hold such office by virtue of sub-section (4) of section 7, shall constitute the General Body of the Project committee:[Provided that if a woman is not elected as the President of any of the Distributary Committees in the project area, the General Body of the Project Committee shall co-opt a woman from amongst the members of the Distributary Committees in the project area as its member.] [Added by Act No. 35 of 2017, dated 9.11.2017.]
