Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context, - · (a) "appointed day" means the date on which this Act came into force ; (b) "date of appointment" means, in relation to any employee, the date on which he joined the service of Panchayats; (c) "Director" means the Director of Panchayat and Rural Development, Assam ; (d) " employees" means a person in the employment of Panchayats against a regularly sanctioned post ; (e) "notification" means the notification published in the Official Gazette ; I THE ASSAM GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY, FEB. 2. 2000 99 Provincia- lisation of the employees of Panchay- ats under State Government. (f) )anchayats" means the Gaon Panchayat, the Anchalik Panchayat and the Zilla Parishad established under the Assam Panchayat Act, 1994 (g) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act; Assam ActXV of' 1994 . ~h). "provincialisation" means taking over of the hab1~tles fo.r payment of salaries including dearness allowance, medical relief and such other allowances as admissible to the Government servant of simil~ ~ategory and gratuity, pension, leave encashment etc. as adm1ss1ble under the existing rules to the Government servants serving under the Government of Assam; (i) " State Government" means the Government of Assam. 3.Subject to the provisions of Article 30 of the Constitution of India, all employees of the Panchayats under the State Government shall be deemed to have been provincialised on and from the appointed day on the following terms and conditions, namely :- . (a) all rules including service rules and rules of conduct and discipline and appeal which are applicable to the Government servants of corresponding grade and similarly placed shall be applicable to all employees of the Panchayats ; (b) all employees shall get such emoluments as salary and allowances etc. as are admissible to the Government servants of similar category : Provided that no employee shall get as emoluments any amount which is less than the amount he was getting immediately before the appointed day; (c) services of all employees shall be encadred in the appropriate cadres in accordance with the rules as may be prescribed by the State Government for this purpose ; (d) the inter-se-seniority of the employees of a cadre or cla~s shall be determined on the basis of the principles laid down rn the rules framed under this Act. Superannuati 4.(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the preceed~ng on and pen- section, all employees other than Grade-IV ~°'.ployees, coming slon etc. within the purview of this Act, shall, on attammg the !'lge of 58 years, go on superannuation and the Grade-IV employees shall go on superannuation on attaining the age of 60 years. (2) All employees going on superannuation unde~ the preceeding sub-section shall be eligible to pension or gratmty or 100 THE ASSAM GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY. FEB. 2, 2000 Protection of action taken in good faith. both in accordance with the pension rules applicable to the Government servants of equivalent rank.