Irrigation Department | About Irrigation Department

The Canal and Embankment Act
	Laws and bye-laws remain in force with a view to allow proper supervision and maintainance and enhance the life and service of irrigation facilities. The Myanmar Canal Act was prescribed in 1905. It contains an introduction and (12) chapters, and is applicable to the whole of Myanmar. The Myanmar Enbankment Act, covering the whole of Myanmar, also came into force in 1909.
The proper use of irrigation water and flood protection measures remain within the purview of the said Acts and with a strict enforcement of the respective laws and regulations, the operational infrastructure of canals and embankments shoud significantly improve.

Public Works Accounts Code and Public Works Department Code
	The Public Works Accounts Code was enacted in 1933 for the proper maintainance of the Irrigation Department's finances and a Public Works Department Code was also instituted in 1933, to coordinate and streamline the functions of the Deprtment. Additionally, an Irrigation Manual delineating departmental procedures has similarly been in regulation since 1948. Projects are given approval on the basis of the above fesibility studies and investigation and on receiving concurrence, is passed on for detailed planning
and design.Currently, the Design work is carried out under the close supervision of two Directors, and up-to-date computers are used from the stages of mathematical computation, and up to the final drawings.

Water Tax and Embankment Tax
	The Pyithu Hluttaw session of 1982, under Law 1, enacted the Water Tax and Embankment Tax Law. The rates leviable, according to the enactment are (a) Water Tax at the rate of ten kyats per acre for localities enjoying irrigable water from government diversions and reservoirs. (b) Embankment Tax at the rate of five kyats per acre for localities under the protection of government embankment and drainage canals, and (c) Charges of ten kyats per acre for localities enjoying both irrigation as well as flood protection facilities.
The collection of water tax and emankment tax according to the respective financial years are given below: