B. SUDERSHAN REDDY, J.

( 1 ) THE petitioner is the President of Balapanur Distributory Committee-I. The elections to the Managing committee were conducted by the District Collector as provided for under Ss. 4 and 8 of the A. P. Farmers Management of Irrigation Systems Act, 1997 (for short the Act ). The petitioner was served with a notice on 24-12-1998 by the second respondent requesting him to attend the meeting proposed to be held on 2-1-1999 at the office of the D. L. Sub-Division, Ankalamma Gudur to replace the petitioner as President of Balapanur Distributory Committee-I. It is the said notice that is impugned in this writ petition on various grounds.

( 2 ) SECTION 5 of the Act authorises the Government to delineate every command area of the irrigation system comprising of one or more water users associations and declare the same to be a distributory area for the purpose of this Act. There shall be a distributory committee for every distributory area and all the Presidents of the water user associations in that distributory area shall constitute general body of the Committee. Section 6 of the Act provides for he election of the President and constitution of the Managing Comm

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