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The Authority shall consist of the following members, namely:- (a) the Secretary to Government in charge of irrigation who shall be the Chairman; (b) the Administrator of the Authority (Chief Executive Officer); (c) the Water Management Specialist who shall be the Secretary; (d) the Secretary to Government, Finance Department; (e) two Members of the Legislative Assembly of the command area, to be nominated by the Government; (f) ten farmers, of who one shall be a member of a Scheduled caste or a Scheduled Tribe in the command area, five from major and medium irrigation Projects and one each from the minor and community irrigation projects in such area, to be nominated by the Government; (g) one representative of credit agencies, to be nominated by the Government; (h) the Director of Agriculture; (i) the Chief Engineer of each of the concerned irrigation projects or where there is no Chief Engineer for the project, Superintending Engineer in chare of each of the concerned irrigation projects; (j) the Registrar of Co-operative Societies; (k) a representative of the Kerala Agricultural University, to be nominated by the Government; (l) the Collectors of the Revenue Districts in which the command area lies; (m) the Director of Economics and Statistics; (n) the Executive Director, Centre for Water Resources Development and Management, Calicut; (o) the Director, Ground Water Department; ((p) the Chairperson of the District Planning Committee in the Command Area region.) [2] Inserted by Act 17 of 2000