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Meetings of Panchayats.- (1) The meetings of a Panchayat at any level shall be held at such intervals, as may be prescribed: Provided that the interval between two meetings shall not exceed one month. 86[(1 a) If a notice in writing is given to the President by not less than one third of the members or members notified by Governments under sub-section (1) of section 6, specifying the purpose for which the meeting is to be convened, he shall convene, a special meeting of the panchayat for considering that matter] (2) Every meeting of a Panchayat shall be presided over by its President or, in his absence, but its Vice-President or, in the absence of both, by a member chosen by the members present at the meeting to preside over the occasion. (3) The person presiding shall preserve order at the meeting and decide all points of order arising at or in connection with meetings. There shall be no discussion on any point of order and the decision of the person presiding on any point of order shall be final. (4) Save as provided in this Act, the time and place of a meeting of a Panchayat, the quorum of such meeting, the procedure of calling such meeting and the procedure at such meeting shall be such as may be prescribed. (5) The rules referred to in sub-section (4) may provide for preventing any member or President or any member or Chairman of a committee from voting on, or taking part in the discussion, of any matter in which apart from its general application to the public he has any direct or indirect pecuniary interest, whether by himself or through some other- person, or from being present or presiding at any meeting of the Panchayat or of the committee during the discussion of any such matter. (6) All questions before a meeting of a Panchayat shall be decided by a majority of votes of the members present and unless otherwise provided in this Act, the person presiding the meeting shall have a casting vote in all cases of equality of votes. (7) No resolution of a Panchayat shall be modified, varied or cancelled by that Panchayat within a period of three months from the date of passing thereof, except by a resolution supported by two-thirds of the whole numbers of member of such Panchayat. [ (8) Any member, who was present at a meting of the panchayat shall have the right to give the secretary a note of dissent regarding a resolution passed by the Panchayat if has voted against such resolution, within forty-eight hours of the conclusion of the meeting. 86 87 86 Inserted by Act 13 of 1999. 87 Substituted by Act 13 of 1999. (9) The secretary shall forward copy of the minutes of every meeting of the Panchayat and the copy of the note of dissent if any, received under sub-section (8) to the Government or to the officer authorised by Government in this behalf, within ten days after the date of the meeting.] [88162. Standing Committees. - (1) In every Panchayats standing committees as stated below shall be constituted namely: - (a) In a Village Panchayat (1) Standing committee for Finance (2) Standing Committee for Development (3) Standing Committee for Welfare. (b) In a block Panchayat (1) Standing Committee for Finance (2) Standing Committee for Development (3) Standing Committee for Welfare (c) In a District Panchayat (1) Standing Committee for Finance (2) Standing Committee for Development (3) Standing Committee for public works. (4) Standing Committee for Health and Education (5) Standing Committee for Welfare (2) Every standing committee shall consist of such number of members, including its chairman as decided by the Panchayat, so that all other elected members except the President and Vice-President shall be elected as a member in any of the standing committee and the number of members elected to each standing committee shall, as far as possible, be equal. (3) The number of members of each standing committee as decided by the Panchayat under sub-section (2) shall not be changed within the term of that Panchayat. (4) In every standing committee there shall be members elected by the elected members of the Panchayat from among themselves under the proportional representation system by single transferable vote and a member shall not be a member of more than one standing committee at a time. (5) The Chairman of every standing committee, except the standing committee for finance, shall, be elected by the members of the respective standing committee from among themselves. (6) The Vice-President shall be an ex-officio member and chairman of the standing committee for finance and the President shall be an ex-officio member of all standing committees without the right to vote. (7) A member other than an ex-officio member of a standing committee and the chairman of a standing committee other than the standing committee for finance may resign the membership or chairmanship of a standing committee as the case may be by tendering 88Substituted by Act 13 of 1999. resignation to the Secretary in the prescribed form and the resignation shall take effect from the date on which it was received by the Secretary and the Secretary shall inform the fact immediately to the President and the panchayat. (8) The person who resigns the membership of chairmanship of the standing committee shall give in person or send through registered post his resignation where such resignation letter is attested by a gazetted officer, as the case may be his resignation to the Secretary and the Secretary shall acknowledge receipt of the same. (9) Except as otherwise provided in this Act, the term of the Chairman of a Standing Committee or its member shall co-exists with the terms of that Panchayat. (10) An election to fill up casual vacancy of the member of standing committee shall be conducted within thirty days of the occurrence of that vacancy: Provided that where the vacancy in a standing committee could not be filled up due to the vacancy of a member of panchayat, the vacancy of standing committee shall be filled up within thirty days from the date of filling up of the vacancy of the member of panchayat. (11) If a casual vacancy of the Chairman of a standing committee other than the standing committee for finance arises one of its members shall be elected as its chairman in the next meeting of the standing committee. (12) A motion of non-confidence on the chairman of the standing committee other than the standing committee for finance may be moved subject to the prescribed provisions and procedures and if such a motion is passed with the support of not less than the majority of the members of the standing committee the chairman of that standing committee shall cease to hold office and he shall be deemed to have vacated the office of the chairman of the standing committee immediately. 162.A. Subjects to be dealt with by the standing committees. - (1) The following subjects shall be dealt with by the standing committees of the panchayat, namely: - (a) in a village panchayat, - (i) The standing committee for finance shall deal with the subjects of finance, tax, accounts, audit, budget, general administration, appeal relating to tax and subjects not allotted to other standing committees; (ii) The standing committee for development shall deal with the subjects of development planning, socio-economic planning, spatial planning, agriculture, soil conservation, social forestry, animal husbandry, diary development, minor irrigation, fisheries, small-scale industry, public works, housing, regulation of building construction, electricity, etc; (iii) The standing committee for welfare shall deal with the subjects of development of scheduled caste-scheduled tribe, development of women and children, social welfare, social security, slum improvements, poverty alleviation, public distribution system, Public Health, Sanitation, Education, Art and Culture and entertainment, water supply, sewerage and environment; (iv)In the Block Panchayat , - (v) The Standing Committee for finance shall deal with the subjects, like finance, accounts, audit, budget, general administration and subjects not allotted to other standing committee; (vi)Standing Committee for development shall deal with the subjects like development planning, socio and economic planning, agriculture, animal husbandry, minor irrigation, fisheries, small-scale industry, public works, housing, electricity and maintenance of watershed; (vii) Standing Committee for Welfare shall deal with the subjects like Development of Scheduled Caste - Schedule Tribe, Development of Women and Children, Social Welfare, Public Health, Education, Art, Culture and Entertainment and Environment; (viii) In the District Panchayat, - (ix)Standing Committee for finance shall deal with the subjects like finance, accounts, audit, budget, general administration and subjects not allowed to other standing committee; (x) The standing committee for development shall deal with the subjects like development planning, socio-economic planning, agriculture, soil conservation, animal husbandry, minor irrigation, fisheries and small scale industry, etc. (xi)The standing committee for public works shall deal with the subjects like public works, housing, spatial planning and environment; (xii) the standing committee for Health and Education shall deal with subjects like public health and education; (xiii) The standing committee for welfare shall deal with subjects like social welfare, development of women and children and development of scheduled caste-scheduled tribe. (xiv) The standing committees of the panchayat may perform such other powers and functions of the panchayat as may be entrusted to it by the panchayat in addition to the powers and duties conferred on it by rules made in this behalf. (xv) Every resolution passed by the standing committee shall be placed before the panchayat in its next meeting and the panchayat shall have power to modify such resolution if considered necessary. (xvi) Where any of the standing committees cannot function effectively by reason of the resignation of the majority of its members or for any other reason, powers and functions of such standing committee shall be vested in the steering committee constituted under section 162 B till its re-constitution. (1) The ex-officio Secretaries referred to in sub-section (11) of section 179 shall attend the meetings of the respective standing committee and render necessary assistance to the committee in the discharge of its functions. 162 B. Steering Committee. - (1) There, shall be a steering committee in every panchayat consisting of its President, Vice-President and the Chairman of standing committees and the President shall be the chairman of the said committee. (2) The steering committee shall co-ordinate and monitor the functions of the standing committees and shall perform such other powers and functions as may be entrusted to it by the panchayat. 89[163. Constitution of Functional Committees. - (1) Every panchayat may subject to such rules as may be made in this behalf, constitute functional committees for different subjects like agriculture, sanitation, communication, public health and education consisting of members of panchayat and others who are interested in public welfare and who are nominated by the panchayat. Provided that members nominated by the panchayat shall not have any right to vote] (2) The powers and functions of the Functional Committees shall be such as may be prescribed in this behalf. 164.Sub-Committees and Ward Committees. - (1) Every Panchayat may constitute subcommittees to assist the Standing Committee or Functional Committees for the execution of any work, scheme, project or plan, which may consist of members of the Panchayat and others interested in public welfare who may be nominated by the Panchayat. 90[Provided that the nominated members shall have no right to vote]. 91[(1a) If not less than fifty persons enrolled in the voters list relating to a constituency of village panchayat belongs to Scheduled Tribe, they shall be deemed to be a SubCommittee of the Grama Sabha comprised in the territorial area of that Constituency and that sub-committee shall have the same powers and rights as that of the grama sabha regarding the development of Scheduled Tribe.] (2) The village panchayat may constitute Ward Committee for each constituency with the member of the constituency concerned and other local inhabitants who may be nominated by the village panchayat to study and report on the needs of the constituency. (3) The composition, term, procedure, nature of functions of the committees constituted under sub-section (1) and sub-section (2) shall be as laid down in the bye-laws of the panchayats concerned. 89 90 91 89 Substituted by Act 13 of 1999. 90 Substituted by Act 91 Substituted by Act 13 of 1999. 92[165. Constitution of joint Committee. -(1) A panchayat may, along with one or more local self government Institutions constitute a Joint Committee for any purpose for which they are jointly responsible, if the panchayat so decided or the Government so requires.] (2) The constitution, powers and procedure of a joint committee and a method of settling differences of opinion arising in the committee shall be such as may be prescribed.