Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
The authority shall have the following functions, namely:- (a) formulation and implementation of schemes for the comprehensive development of the command area; (b) Evolve equitable water distribution policy for the command area and ensure proper maintenance of the irrigation system; (c) prevention of land erosion and water-logging; (d) improvement of soil fertility and regulation of cropping pattern; (e) ensuring the efficient maintenance of field channels and field drains by the farmers within the command area; (f) localisation and delocalisation of lands for various crops; (g) ensuring supplies of all inputs and services; (h) promotion and setting up of rural growth centres for integrated development of the command area; (i) development of marketing, processing and storage facilities and adequate communication system; (j) arranging for credit facilities to the farmers and artisans; (k) organising agricultural co-operatives and associations; (l) construction of field channels and connected drains; (m) ensuring the formation of farm channels and drains and also necessary land development works within individual holdings; (n) borrowing and lending money necessary for the due discharge of its functions; (o) conjunctive use of surface and ground water; (p) setting up agricultural demonstration farms and promoting extension activities; (q) ensuring that the beneficiaries form users' associations and attend to equitable water distribution in each unit referred to in section 40; (r) acquisition, possession or disposal of property, both movable and immovable, for the development of the command area; and (s) such other functions, not inconsistent with the provisions of the Act, as may be prescribed by rules