Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
A person shall be disqualified from being selected as and for being a member of Village Council : — (1) If he is unsound mind and stands so declared by the competent court or such authority as may be recognised by the State Government ; or (2) If he is not a citizen of India or has voluntarily acquired citizenship of foreign nation or is under acknowledgement or allegiance to a foreign nation; or (3) if he has been convicted by a court in India for an offence and sentenced to imprisonment for not less than two years unless a period of five years or such less period as the State Government may allow in any particular case, has elapsed since his release; or (4) if having held an office under any Council he has been found guilty of corruption, disloyalty or breach of such Council laws, unless a period of five years or such less period as the State Government may determine in any particular case has elapsed since his becoming so disqualified ; or (5) if he is an undischarged insolvent; or (6) if he is a salaried Government servant or employee of an Area Council ; or (7) if he abstains himself from the majority of the meeting in a year and is unable to explain such absence to the satisfaction of the Council; or (8) if he is a member of any other Village Council; or (9) if be has been dismissed from the service of the Government or any other local authority for misconduct, unless a period of five years has elaspsed from the date of dismissal.