State Act

The Arunachal Pradesh Protection of Drinking Water Catchment Areas Act, 2023

2. In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context- (a) ‘Act’ means the Arunachal Pradesh Protection of Drinking water Catchment Areas Act, 2023 ; (b) ‘Advisory Board’ means the ‘Arunachal Pradesh Drinking Water Catchment Areas Advisory Board (APDWCAAB)’ constituted under section 3; (c) ‘Competent Authority’ means the Competent Authority appointed under section 18 of the Act; (d) ‘Dependency of a livelihood’ means no other alternative source of income for sustenance of a family or a community; (e) ‘District Board’ means the ‘District Drinking Water Catchment Area Protection Board (DDWCAPB)’ constituted under section 5 of the Act; (f) ‘Drinking Water Catchment Area’ means an area where springs, streams, rivulets, lakes, glaciers and water sources originate and serve as a potential source of perennial flow of water; Note : Drinking Water Catchment Area can be categorized into ‘Critical Catchment Area’, ‘Sub-Critical Catchment Area’ and ‘Non-Critical Catchment Area’ in terms of threat pertaining to the water availability in the source as defined under section 11 (2) (a), (b) and (c); (g) ‘Executive Committee’ means the ‘District Executive Committee for Drinking Water Catchment Areas Protection (DECDWCAP)’ constituted under section 7 of the Act; (h) ‘Government’ means the Government of the State of Arunachal Pradesh; (i) ‘Land Owner’ means an individual or a community holding the ownership rights conferred through ancestral inheritance or through a Land Possession Certificate (LPC); Explanation : ‘Land’ for the purpose of this Act includes trees and standing crops in the catchment area. (j) ‘Measures’ means the measures specified in section-12 of this Act; (k) ‘Notification’ means notification by Government of Arunachal Pradesh published in the Gazette of Arunachal Pradesh; (l) ‘Prescribed’ means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (m) ‘Section’ means a section of the Act; (n) ‘VWSC’ means the ‘Village Water & Sanitation Committee’ constituted under section-9 of the Act; (o) ‘Watershed’ means an area surrounding any spring, stream or pond (whether formed naturally or otherwise) which conserves and sustains a source of water, the quality and quantity whereof are likely to be varied by erosion of soil, felling of trees or disturbances by cattle grazing or human settlement/activity.