drilling means the act of boring a hole to reach a proposed bottom hole location through which oil or gas may be produced if encountered in paying quantities, and includes redrilling, sidetracking, deepening, or other means necessary to reach the proposed bottom hole location, testing, logging, plugging, and other operations necessary and incidental to the actual boring of the hole;
Panchayat means an institution (by whatever name called) of self-government constituted under article 243B, for the rural areas;
borehole means a hole sunk into the earth for the purpose of locating, abstracting or using subterranean water and includes a spring;
foreshore , in relation to a port, means the area between the high-water mark and the low-water mark relating to that port;
Holocene means the most recent epoch of the Quaternary period, extending from the end of the Pleistocene Epoch to the present.