T "The Authority shall prepare or cause to be prepared in consultation with the Executive Group every year, i… — (Received the assent of the Governor on 25th July, 2006) THE MAJULI CULTURAL LANDSCAPE REGION ACT, 2006

. "T "The Authority shall prepare or cause to be prepared in consultation with the Executive Group every year, in such form and at such time as may be prescribed, an annual budget estimate in respect of the next financial year showing the estimated receipts and disbursements of the Authority and shall submit a copy thereof to the State Government for prior approval before incurring any expenditure from the Budget provisions.

15 . "T "The Authority shall prepare or cause to be prepared in consultation with the Executive Group every year, in such form and at such time as may be prescribed, an annual budget estimate in respect of the next financial year showing the estimated receipts and disbursements of the Authority and shall submit a copy thereof to the State Government for prior approval before incurring any expenditure from the Budget provisions. Subventionsand16. Loans tothe Authority. " The State Government may, from time to time. make subventions to the Authority for the purpose of this Act on such terms and conditions as the State Government may determine . The State Government may , from time to time, advance loans to the Authority on such terms and conditions, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, as the State Government may determine. " TIffi=,ASSAM GAZETTE. EXTRAORDINARY, JULY 28,2006 1243 Powers of the Authorityto borrow; , The Authority may, from time to time, with the , previous sanction of the State Government and SUbjectto the provisions of this Act, and under such terms and conditions asmay be determined in this , behalf, borrow any sum required for the purpose of this Act. Accounts and Audit. (1) The Authority shall cause to be maintained proper books of accounts and such other books as the rules made under this Act may require and shall prepare in accordance with such rules an annual statement of accounts . The Authority shall ' cause its accounts to be audited annually by such persons as the State Government may direct. Powerto make 19. (1) The State ' Government may make rules for rules. carrying out the purposes of this Act. Every rules made under this Act shall be laid, as soon as may after it is made, before the Assam Legislative Assembly while it is in sessions for a total period of fourteen days which may be comprised in one session or two successive session and if , before the expiry of the-session, in which it is so laid or the sessions following, the Assam Legislative Assembly agree in making any . I modification }n the rule or the Assam Legislative Assembly agree that the rule s.h.ould not be made, the rule shell thereafter have effect only in such ' , . .... -' mod!fied form or be of no effec,t as the case may be; $0 however that any such or annulment . '. I, . shallbe without prejudice to the flidity of anything previously done under that rule . I THE-ASSAM GAZETfE, EXTRAORDINARY, JULY 28,2006 1245 APPENDIX Definition of CulturalResources in MajullCore Area and Buffer Area or Majuli Cultural LandscapeRegion. HYDROLOGIC TYPE Small Ponds (pukhurls) : such as washing or homestead fishery. Hola (depression In fields) : Holasarenaturaldepressions inthe paddyfields , mostlylocated in the interior landscape, smaller than a wetland (beet) are shared by local communities for feeding, washing cows, buffaloes sometimes · fishlng . Various economically important local grasses, weeds are also found here. During rainy season water gets accumulated due to slopes which may get dry. Kha' (a man made linear dug out for making roads) : Usually found alongsidethe road as shallow ravine. The khals are man madewater bodieswhiCh are createdas leftover linear dug out earth from which is dumped for constructing the road. The khals exhibit multipurpose use of a fi$hery, a vegetable yard on a hanging bamboo palisade and a boundaryfor the household. Dubil Duba (water body near road caused by seasonal flood) : A dynamic creation of tiood, scouring of shifting river channel in the riparian flood plains of Majuli, a dubi becomes identifiable only post flood season when water recedes, which leaves the channels dry, and dubior a deep sheet of leftover water along the source remains. The dubis! dubas get charged with floodwater again in the subsequent season and therefore it becomes a constant source of fish and other aquatic species from the river. Pltonil Doloni (shallow marshy land with savannah type of grass) : A pitoni and a doloni, in local term for shallow marshy land is usually found in the interior landscape ofMajuN. Sometimes they are fed by streams or small channels, remains muddy with ankle deep water. A prime spot for various zoo and phytoplankton, various reeds such as khagori, nal and other . medium hE;light savannah type of grasses along with water weeds, it is a major breeding ground for most of the migratory ' " .. ' " and local birds. Fishes mostly murre! and cat types are abundarifhere which attracts birds from Bortokola to Kamsarai. In summer noon buffaloes and cows are found to be grazing and wallowing in these shallow and muddy swamps. Beel (large wetlands) large static water bodies connected by smal streams or depressions, most of the times beels in Majuli are directly connected to interior large streams or Brahmaputra river in high floods. They sometime form a water network system with various other water components such as pitoni, jan, small rivers etc. A identifiable entity for its largeness beets are mostly shared by all the villages surrounding it for fish, aquatic plants, economic plants and asa water source for winter paddy and rabi crops. :. IfIE ASSAM GAZEITE, EXTRAORDINARY, JULY 28,2006 1247 Jan (small stream, may dry up In seasonal variation) Sutl (perennial stream) Nadll Nol (River) LAND TYPE FIELDS Low land/ High LandI Open field/ River Bank etc . Dhanonl (paddy field) Mahtoll (Pulse field) Sarlah toll (mustard field) Grazing Land Temporal·lslets and sand bars (CharI Chaparl) Forest Areas (vegetation types-deciduous! evergreen/ legumes/shrub etc. - entire bio-resource) Groves (a spatial area where th grasses are grownl found) Nolonl (Nal reeds in low lying areas) Khagori (Khagori reed In low lying areas) Ikora (Ikra char, savannah vegetation) Kahuwa (char, savannah grass) Kheronl (char, savannah grass) Bahonl and Betoni (bamboo and cane) SETTLEMENT TYPE: Mishing Village: Dahgam and Baragam or spatially located near natural components/ architecture etc .

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