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Government notification

Through a notification issued on July 23, 2001, the Maharashtra government has made the participatory irrigation management programme compulsory. Its salient features are as follows:

The farmers' cooperatives will take up all irrigation work, including dam construction and maintenance

They will choose their chairperson

The farmers would take care of the water account

Water will be distributed to the farmers on a volumetric basis rather than allotment of an area-wise quota

The notification lifts the restriction on the choice of crops. There will be a sanctioned quota of water for each crop, which may be released on the basis of the crop selected

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