Gujarat Irrigation and Drainage Rules, 2014.

These Rules are enacted in accordance with the Gujarat Irrigation and Drainage Act, 2013. The Rules consist of 53 Sections divided into 7 Parts: Construction and Maintenance of Field Channel and Water-Courses (I); Supply of Water (II); Cultivation of crop and use of Water (III); Water Supply Rates (IV); Appeals (V); Miscellaneous (VI); Supply of Water Free of Charge for Agricultural Purposes From Canal on Which Government has not Incurred any Expenditure(VII).
Where there does not exist field channel in any service area in which lands are capable of being irrigated from a canal, the State Government may construct the field channel in the public interest at the cost of the State Government. Maintenance of field channel shall be carried out by individual farmer in whose land field channel passes. Wherever the canals are handed over to Water User's Association under the provision of Gujarat Water User's Participatory Irrigation Management Act, 2007 (PIM Act, 2007) - (i) Individual application shall not be accepted by the Canal Officer from beneficial area of concerned canal on which Water User' Association is formed. (ii) Individual applicants who are not member of the Water User's Association shall require to submit application form to the concerned Water User's Association of that canal. (iii) Water User's Association shall accept the application form from individual farmers who are member of Water User' Association but comes under beneficial area of canal system for which Water User's Association is formed. (iv) On the basis of forms collected from individual farmers who are not member of Water User's Association and member of Water User's Association, only a single application of consolidated area shall be made in duplicate to the canal officer in Form A-1, along with statement showing details of farmers (member wise and crop wise) and area to be irrigated.