(1)Registration of existing commercial, industrial, infrastructural and bulk users of Ground Water: Every existing well for commercial, industrial, infrastructural and bulk user located in Notified Areas (both urban and rural areas) shall apply to the respective District Ground Water Management Council for grant of a certificate of registration. The procedure, time limit, forms, fee etc. and other provisions for the grant of registration certificate shall be such as may be prescribed. Provided that-, (a) where any existing Commercial user or Bulk user is found extracting ground water without registration, he or she or a group of persons or an agency (as the case may be) shall be liable to be punished under Chapter-VIII; (b) where a registered well becomes defunct, the fact shall immediately be brought to the notice of the respective District Ground Water Management Council by the user of ground water; (c) where any such user of ground water, having certificate of registration wants to carry-out any modification or alteration in a registered well, he or she or a group of persons or an agency (as the case may be) shall obtain clearance for the same from the State Ground Water Management and Regulatory Authority in such manner as may be prescribed. (2) Every existing and future users of ground water, other than those mentioned in sub-section (1), including domestic and agriculture users of ground water shall register online or directly to the respective Block Panchayat Ground Water Management Committee/Municipal Water Management Committee for ground water usages. The web-portal for online intimation shall be informed by the said committee.
(1)<span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><b>Registration of existing commercial, industrial, infrastructural and bulk users of Ground Water:</b> Every existing well for commercial, industrial, infrastructural and bulk user located in Notified Areas (both urban and rural areas) shall apply to the respective District Ground Water Management Council for grant of a certificate of registration. The procedure, time limit, forms, fee etc. and other provisions for the grant of registration certificate shall be such as may be prescribed.<br> Provided that-,<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(a) where any existing Commercial user or Bulk user is found extracting ground water without registration, he or she or a group of persons or an agency (as the case may be) shall be liable to be punished under Chapter-VIII;<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(b) where a registered well becomes defunct, the fact shall immediately be brought to the notice of the respective District Ground Water Management Council by the user of ground water;<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span><span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(c) where any such user of ground water, having certificate of registration wants to carry-out any modification or alteration in a registered well, he or she or a group of persons or an agency (as the case may be) shall obtain clearance for the same from the State Ground Water Management and Regulatory Authority in such manner as may be prescribed.<br> (2) <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>Every existing and future users of ground water, other than those mentioned in sub-section (1), including domestic and agriculture users of ground water shall register online or directly to the respective Block Panchayat Ground Water Management Committee/Municipal Water Management Committee for ground water usages. The web-portal for online intimation shall be informed by the said committee. <br>