briefly the nature of the Vaigai river and the character of the irrigation works carried out by Government. The Vaigai is the chief river ... down an old channel on the north bank called Vadagaran" which irrigated some 4,200 acres of Government land. The dam and channel were
about 507 acres 14 cents, which depended on these tanks for their irrigation from 1889 they allowed supply free of charge only for 427 acres ... engagement' under Act VII of 1865 having been alleged, all lands irrigated by Ellore canal water must pay cess. The Judge in appeal held
District. He claims to be a member of the East Thathankulam Lift Irrigation Co-operative Society. The first respondent to the writ petition ... exceed 20. It is stated that the East Thathankulam Lift Irrigation Society is one of the co-operative societies, which are members of the first
must be remembered that at that time the tanks were functioning as irrigation sources and no question of the Government's "power ... That these tanks were primarily intended for irrigation purposes and were used as irrigation sources, is not seriously denied. The learned Judge assumes this, though
with large irrigation wells (A schedule Items 1 to 3) and palacial houses described as Items 5 and 6 in A schedule are the ancestral ... abandoned wells. The lands comprised in S. No. 807/1 is irrigated only with the water in the well situated
zamindari and Lukulam Agraharam in the Chicacole taluk of the Ganjam district, irrigated from four channels, the Jalmuru, Polaki, Lukulam and Mobagam channels ... zamindar and agraharamdars has been levied in some cases on irrigated second crop grown on land elapsed as irritable or ' wet' land
Parke [1899] A.C. 535 the defendants had a statutory right to irrigate their soil by compulsory diversion of water from adjacent streams by conveying ... addition to leading the water required for the supply of the Korkai irrigation tank carries off the drainage from the Maruduranicut system. As about five
from a Government source and the plaintiff's lands have been irrigated thereby and that it is immaterial that after leaving the Government source ... water from that source should, from or through the adjoining land, irrigate a land under cultivation or flow into a reservoir and be thereafter used
Zamindar. Their case is that the lands iu their village were irrigated by the Mobagam channel which convoyed water to their lands from the Vamsadhara ... Government pleaded that the Vamsadhara river is a Government source of irrigation and that the Mobagam channel is the property of Government. They also pleaded
batch
that the maintenance works in respect of the irrigation tanks
should be entrusted only to the farmers' organisations
constituted under the Tamil Nadu ... Farmers' Management of
Irrigation Systems Act, 2000 (hereinafter referred to as Tamil
Nadu Act 7 of 2001) and not to any hastily registered private
