Section 2(f) in Telangana Irrigation (Construction and Maintenance of Water Courses) Act, 1965
(f)"Irrigation work" includes -(i)All rivers and natural streams or parts thereof;(ii)all lakes and other natural collections of water, or parts thereof;(iii)all tanks, wells, tube wells, reservoirs, ponds, kuntas, streams, madugus used for the supply of storage of water for purposes of irrigation;(iv)all canals, channels, anicuts, dams, embankments, weirs, sluies, groins, kuntas and other work other than escape channels, connected with, or auxiliary to the irrigation works referred to in sub-clauses (i) to (iii);(v)all drainage channels, the water of which is utilised for the purpose of irrigation;(vi)all lands used for the purpose of irrigation works referred to in sub-clauses (i) to (v); and(vii)all buildings, machinery, fences, gates, roads and other erections occupied by, or belonging to, the government and connected with an irrigation work; which are owned, maintained, constructed or controlled by the Government;
