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Consultative Committee.-A Council may also elect from time to time and for such period as it may think fit, Consultative Committees consisting of such number of Councillors as it may think fit and the Council or the President may refer to any such Committees for inquiry and report, or for opinion, any matter relating to the purposes of this Act. 72-A Constitution of Ward Committees.-(1) If the Council decides to constitute the Wards Committee, the same may be constituted in the area of a Municipal Council or Nagar Panchayat. (2) The Council shall be competent to determine the number of Wards Committees to be constituted within the area of a Municipal Council or Nagar Panchayat, as the case may be and the territorial area of each such wards committees Provided that the wards included in the territorial area of a ward committee shall be contiguous. (3) Every elected councillor representing a ward within the territorial area of a ward committee and two persons residing within the territorial area of such ward committee as may be nominated by the President shall be the members of that Committee: Provided that only a person who is otherwise not in-eligible for election as a councilor shall be so nominated: Provided further that only persons having special knowledge or experience in the municipal administration shall be nominated on the recommendation of the chairman of the ward committee and the persons so nominated shall not have voting rights in the meetings of the ward committee. (4) The Ward Committee shall at its first meeting in the prescribed manner elect one of the elected Councillors to be its Chairman who shall hold office until the duration of the Municipal Council or Nagar Panchayat as the case may be, (5) The State Government shall prescribe, the functions and powers of Ward Committes and the procedure for the conduct of their business. 72.B Constitutioon and Composition of Mohalla Committees.-(1) In every Municipal area which is notified by State Government in this behalf, the Mohalla Committees shall be constituted within three months from the date of notification. The Madhya Pradesh Municipalities Act, 1961 32 (2) The number of Mohalla Committees and the number of members shall be such as the State Government may, by order, prescribe from time to time. (3) The elected Councillor of Ward concerned shall be a member in all the Mohalla Committees within the territorial area of any Ward. (4) The Council shall be competent to determine the territorial area of Mohalla Committees: Provided that the Mohallas included in the territorial area of any Mohalla Committee shall be contiguous. (5) The State Government shall prescribe the functions and powers of the Mohalla Committee and the procedure for the conduct of their business.