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Establishment of Standing Committees.-(1) There shall be the following Standing Committees for the Corporation,- (a) Standing Committee for taxation and finance and appeals (b) Standing Committee for public health, solid waste and disaster management. 44 (c) Standing Committee for establishment and administrative reforms; (d) Standing Committee for markets. (e) Standing Committee for Ward level Public works, town planning and infrastructure (f) Standing Committee for Education and social justice (g) Standing Committee for Horticulture (h) Standing Committee for Audit and Accounts (2) Each Standing Committee shall consist of fifteen councillors who shall be elected by the Council. (3) Each Standing Committee shall have a chairperson who shall be elected by the members of such standing committee on its first meetingof the corporation after the general elections and at the first meeting in the same month in each succeeding year according to the principle of proportionate representation by means of single transferable vote in such manner as may be prescribed (4) The duration of the Standing Committee shall be one year. (5) The Mayor and Deputy Mayor shall be the ex-officio members of all the standing committees. (6) A person shall cease to be a member of the standing committee if he ceases to be a Corporation member or if he absents himself without the permission of the standing committee for three consecutive meetings of the standing committee. (7) Where a casual vacancy occurs in the membership of a standing committee it shall be filled by the Corporation by the election of another Palike member. The person so elected shall hold office only so long as the person in whose place he is elected would, but for the occurrence of the vacancy, have held. (8) A member of the standing committee may resign his office at any time by notice in writing addressed to the chairman of the standing committee or where there is no Chairman to the Mayor and delivered to the Chairman or as the case may be to the Mayor and such resignation shall take effect from the date on which it is delivered.