(1)The Superintending Engineer of a Major/Medium/Minor Irrigation Project shall delineate every Pani Panchayat area by issuing a notification to that effect observing the following stipulations, namely :(a)The Pani Panchayat area shall ordinarily cover an ayacut area between 300 to 600 hectares for a Major/Medium Irrigation Project.(b)In respect of a Minor Irrigation Flow Project, the Pani Panchayat area may be less than 300 hectares as per the ground conditions, but shall not be less than 40 hectares.(c)Every Pani Panchayat area shall be a contiguous patch of land having a distinct hydraulic boundary.(d)The Pani Panchayat area shall avoid critical patches such as hills, rocks, sand dunes etc.(2)in respect of Lift Irrigation Projects the entire commanded area of the project may as far as possible form the area of a single Pani Panchayat, which shall be notified by the concerned Executive Engineer of Orissa Lift Irrigation Corporation observing the above stipulations as per Sub-rule (1) above.
