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In this Act, unless there is .anything re- pu;;nant in the subject or context,- (a) "agricultural land" includes land used or capable of being used for raising of crops, grass or garden produce, veget- ables, seed farming, pisciculture, horti- culture, growing of fruits or other similar purpose ; (b) "bank" includes - (i) a banking company as defined in sec-- tion 5 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949, (H) "State Bank of India" constituted under the State Bank of India Act, 1955, j:HE ASSAM GAZETTE. EXTRAORDINARY, SEPT. I, 1978 817 (iii) a subsidiary Bank as defined in the State Bank of India (subsidiary Banks) Act, 1959, (iv) a "Corresponding new Bank" cons- tituted under section 3 of the Banking Companies (Acquisition and transfer of undertakings) Act, 1970, (v) the Assam Co-operative Central Land Mortgage Bank Limited constituted under the Assam Co-operative Land Mortgage Bank Act, 1960, (vi) a Co-operative Land MortgC!ge Bank registered under Assam Co-operative Societies Act, 1949, (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, (viii) "Regional Rural Bank" under the Regional Rural .1976, constituted Banks Act, (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- (i) raising of crops, grass or garden pro .. duce and vegetables, (ii) seed farming, (iii) pisciculture, (iv) horticulture, {v) growing of fruits, (vi) other purposes as may be notified by the State Government ; 818 THE ASSAM GAZETTE, Bx·rRAORbINARY, SEPT. 1, 19'78 (d) "defaulter" means any member of a group who refuses to make any contri- bution 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 ; (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 ; (f) "Irrigation Officer" means an Executive Engineer under the Irrigation Depart- ment 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 State Government; ~~),., r--~, ( g) "margin money" means the money required to be paid by a farmer for obtaining loan from a bank for imple- menting a scheme framed under this Act; (h) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules framed under this Act ; (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; (j) ''Superintending Engineer" means the Superintending Engineer of the Irriga- tion Department ; J .. - TB:E ASSAM GAZETTE. EXTRAORDINARY, SEPT. I, 1978 819 ,__ {k) "under-ground water" means water avail- able below top soil layers ; (l) "well" means a well sunk for the search for extraction of under-ground water within any area for irrigation and inclu- des an open well, dug well, bored well, dug-cum-bored well, tube well and filter point. ~· ·"~-''-·-~;':.~ - ~--~, ~ --~1\12~ .