Communities with a relatively equal distribution of power and influence and high percentage of people organized as influentials, are considered rather appropriate for cooperative projects like watercourse improvement and maintenance than those dominated by a few powerful people. The watercourse on which the executive committee members (leaders) were having high power/influence were well maintained. The association between power/influence and caste dominance was significant. The farmers desired that their leaders should be educated, member of National or Provincial Assembly/District Council, or having high relations with government officials.
