Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Power to take over municipal services by the Government. - (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, any other law inforce, rules made thereunder and contracts executed and orders made, the State Government if it thinks fit that it is expedient and necessary to do so, may, by notification in the Official Gazette, take over all or any class of employees working in a municipality, specified in the Schedule-II 2[or Schedule-IV]. (2) Where any class of employees are taken over under sub-section (1), such employees will become the employees of the State Government and shall be entitled to such remuneration and shall be governed by such rules and regulations as are applicable, to the employees of the State Government on equivalent post. (3) Where any class of employees the taken over by the State Government under sub-section (1), they shall be merged with the employees of that Department of the Government to which the State Government may order: Provided that where such employees are so taken over from a municipality, the corresponding posts in the municipality shall be filled in by deputation out of cadre of the Government Department concerned and the expenditure on account of payment of salary and allowances etc., shall be born by the municipality concerned. (4) Any service rendered by such class of employees under a municipality before taking over such service shall be deemed to be service