Assam Farmers (Group Irrigation) Act, 1978

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    "title": "Assam Farmers (Group Irrigation) Act, 1978",
    "short_title": "Assam Farmers (Group Irrigation) Act, 1978",
    "act_number": "Assam Act 10 of 1978",
    "act_year": 1978,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Assam",
    "law_status": "unknown",
    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "Assam Farmers (Group Irrigation) Act, 1978",
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            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short, title, extent and commencement.",
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Definitions.",
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            "content": "(a) \"agricultural land\" includes land used or capable of being used for raising of crops, grass or garden produce, vegetables, seed farming, pisciculture, horticulture, growing of fruits or other similar purpose;\n(b) \"bank\" includes-\n(i) a banking company as defined in Section 5 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 ;\n(ii) 'State Bank of India' constituted under the State of India Act, 1955 ;\n(iii) a subsidiary bank as defined in the State Bank of India (Subsidiary Banks) Act, 1959 ;\n(iv) a 'corresponding new bank' constituted under Section 3 of the Banking Companies (Acquisition and Transfer of Undertakings) Act, 1970;\n(v) the Assam Co-operative Central Land Mortgage Bank Limited constituted under the Assam Co-operative Land Mortgage Bank Act, 1960;\n(vi) a Co-operative Land Mortgage Bank registered under Assam Co-operative Societies Act, 1949 ;\n(vii) any other financial institution or a co-operative society which may be notified to be a bank for the purposes of this Act by the State Government from time to time ;\n(viii) \"Regional Rural Bank\" constituted under the Regional Rural Bank Act, 1976 ;\n(c) \"cropping pattern\" means a system of cultivation specified in a scheme for using agricultural land for any one or more or all of the following purposes:\n(i) raising of crops, grass on garden produce and vegetables ;\n(ii) seed farming;\n(iii) pisciculture;\n(iv) horticulture;\n(v) growing of fruits ;\n(vi) other purposes as any be notified by the State Government ;\n(d) \"defaulter\" means any member of a group who refuses to make any contribution or take loan from a bank or fulfil any obligation, financial or otherwise, for implementing a scheme or fails to repay by due date any instalment of the loan taken for implementing the same;\n(e) \"group\" means an association consisting of farmers not less than two in number formed for the purpose of implementing a scheme under this Act ;\n(f) \"Irrigation Officer\" means an executive engineer under the irrigation department having jurisdiction over an area and includes any other officer not below the rank of a subordinate engineer of the irrigation department authorised by the executive engineer for the purpose of this Act and further includes any other categories of officials or agencies duly notified by the Stare Government;\n(g) \"Margin money\" means the money required to be paid by a farmer for obtaining loan from a bank for implementing a scheme framed under this Act;\n(h) \"prescribed\" means prescribed by rules framed under this Act;\n(i) \"scheme\" means the details of any plan of an irrigation work for using surface water through lift and under ground water through wells in any agricultural land to promote or increase or assure agricultural produce prepared for the purpose of rendering benefit to a group of farmers;\n(j) \"Superintending Engineer\" means the Superintending Engineer of the Irrigation Department;\n(k) \"under ground water\" means water available below top soil layers ;\n(l) \"well\" means a well sunk for the search for extraction of under ground water within any area for irrigation and includes an open well, dug well, bored well, dug-cum-bored well, tube-well and filter point.",
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            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Formation of group of farmers and request for preparing a scheme.",
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            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Enforcement of scheme on unwilling farmers.",
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        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Implementation of scheme.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Penalty for obstruction to the scheme.",
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            "sort_order": 5
        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Charge over crops.",
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            "content": "",
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        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Appeal against order of Irrigation Officer.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Application of revision.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Bar of jurisdiction of Courts or Tribunals etc.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Protection of action taken in good faith.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Power to remove obstructions etc.",
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            "sort_order": 11
        },
        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Recovery of expenditure.",
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            "sort_order": 12
        },
        {
            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. Cognizance of offence by court.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "15",
            "title": "15. Effect of provisions of the Act inconsistent with other laws.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "16",
            "title": "16. Power to make rules.",
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            "content": "(a) the manner in which the application for framing a scheme under sub-section (1) Section 3 is to be made ;\n(b) the manner in which margin money is to be deposited with the bank and the time for deposit thereof under sub-section (3) of Section 5 ;\n(c) the manner for enforcement of the scheme on unwilling farmers under sub-section (1) Section 4 ;\n(id) the manner in which the scheme is to be implemented and maintained under sub-sections (1) and (2) of Section 5 ;\n(e) the manner in which appeal is to be made under sub-section (1) of Section 8;\n(f) the manner in which the application for revision is to be made under sub-section (1) of Section 9 ;\n(g) and such other matters provision whereof is necessary to be made in the rules.",
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    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "Last Updated 12th February, 2020 [ass239]",
        "Act Number": "Assam Act 10 of 1978",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1978",
        "Short Title": "Assam Farmers (Group Irrigation) Act, 1978",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Assam"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:18"
}