Section 2. The Government of India, keeping the importance of safety of dams, constituted a Standing Committee

2. The Government of India, keeping the importance of safety of dams, constituted a Standing Committee in the year 1982 under the Chairmanship of Chairman, Central Water Commission to review the existing practices and to evolve unified procedure for safety of dams in India. The Standing Committee in its report dated the 10th July, 1986 recommended for unified dam safety procedure for all dams in India and the necessary legislation on dam safety. Initial efforts for dam safety legislation were directed towards enactment of appropriate legislation by respective State Governments, and accordingly the State of Bihar enacted the Dam Safety Act, 2006. However, some of the States favoured the idea of a uniform central legislation on dam safety. The State of Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal adopted resolution in their States for an Act of Parliament. Accordingly, the Dam Safety Bill, 2010 was introduced in Lok Sabha on the 30th August, 2010 and was subsequently referred to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Water Resources for examination. The Parliamentary Standing Committee submitted its recommendations in its Seventh Report on the Dam Safety Bill, 2010. Owing to significant changes/modifications entailed in the Bill while complying with the recommendations of the Parliamentary Standing Committee, the Ministry of Water Resources decided to withdraw the Bill and to introduce the modified Bill as a new Bill in the Parliament. Meanwhile, the term of the 15th Lok Sabha came to an end, and therefore the Dam Safety Bill, 2010 lapsed with the dissolution of 15th Lok Sabha. 2. resolve any issue between the State Dam Safety Organisations of States or between a State Dam Safety Organisation and any owner of a specified dam in that State;