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Officers of the Greater Bengaluru Authority.- (1) The Government shall appoint additional officers to assist the Chief Commissioner in carrying out the functions relating to infrastructure, town planning, administration, law, finance, vigilance and such other functions exercised by the Greater Bengaluru Authority under this Act. The Government shall by order determine, from time to time, the salaries and other terms and conditions of service of such officers. (2) The Greater Bengaluru Authority may have such number of officers of the State Civil Service and All India Services on its cadre as Special or Additional or Joint or Deputy or Assistant Commissioners as the Government deems necessary and on such terms and conditions as the Government may decide. (3) The Government shall depute a Chief Town Planner of the rank of the Director of Town and Country Planning who shall be subordinate to the Chief Commissioner and with such other officers from the Department of Town and Country Planning with qualification of master’s degree in Town and Country Planning, who shall be subordinate to the Chief Commissioner, to assist the Greater Bengaluru Authority in the matter relating to Town planning. (4) The Government may appoint such agencies to manage the municipal solid waste and other waste and in this regard shall appoint such officers with expertise, from the City Corporation. (5) The officials and the officers working in the City Corporations and the local bodies falling within the Greater Bengaluru Area as well as those in the Greater Bengaluru Authority shall merge to form a common cadre under the Greater Bengaluru Authority as the cadre controlling authority. (6) The Officers/officials working/had worked in Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike on deputation for more than 5 years may be merged with the common care of Officers/ officials mentioned in sub-section (5) above. (7) The Authority shall maintain the seniority, promotions, and manage deputations up to the cadre level of the Chief Engineer, within the area of the Authority. The transfers, salaries, disciplinary action and other terms and conditions of service of such officers shall be as may be prescribed. (8) The Government shall depute an Engineer-in-Chief, Chief Finance Officer, Chief Vigilance Officer and Chief Law Officer as suitable to be the head of Engineering, Finance, Vigilance and Law departments of the Greater Bengaluru Authority. (9) The Greater Bengaluru Authority shall, from time to time, prepare and submit for the sanction of the Government, a schedule of the officers and servants it deems necessary and proper to maintain for the purposes of this Act. The salaries and other terms and conditions of service of such officers shall be as may be prescribed. (10) No suit, prosecution or other legal proceedings shall lie against the Government, the Greater Bengaluru Authority and the City Corporation, its officers or servants or any person acting under the directions of the Government, the Greater Bengaluru Authority or the City Corporation, for anything done in good faith or intended to be done under this Act, or any rule, bye-law, regulation or order made under it.