Powers and Duties of Finance Committee

(1) The Finance Committee shall act as advisory body on all matters concerning the finance of the Board. Its duties and functions shall be as under: (i) to prepared and submit to the Executive Council with its recommendations the annual revised or supplementary budget estimates of the annual accounts of income and expenditure of the Board; (ii) to make recommendation to the Executive Council on all matters relating to the finance of the Board; (iii) to examine every proposal of new expenditure and to advice the Executive Council thereon; (iv) to review and report periodically to the Executive Council on the financial position of the Board; (v) generally to devise means for effecting economy, without impairing efficiency; (vi) to consider proposals for fixation of pay scales for new posts and revision of pay scales and advice the Executive Council thereon. 1) A person to be appointed as paper-setter or moderators in a subject should fulfill the following condition:- i. He should ordinarily have offered that subject for the degree Examination, if a Headmaster or a teacher or a member of the teaching staff of a recognized Secondary School or Training Institution; ii. He should ordinarily be a Master’s Degree holder in the subject, if a member of the teaching staff of or a Demonstrator in a Higher Secondary School or a College; iii. He should ordinarily have at least 10 years experience of teaching the subject to the top classes viz. IX and or X of a Secondary School or any of the classes in a college or a Higher Secondary School or recognized Training Institution for Primary or Secondary Teachers; iv. He should ordinarily have experience as an Examiner for at least five times at Secondary School Certificate or Higher Secondary School Certificate Examination held by any Examination body during the preceding 10 years; v. He should ordinarily be a person who has not been out of touch with the teaching of the subject to the top classes (IX and /or X) in a Secondary School or any of the classes in a Higher Secondary School or College or recognized Training Institutions for more than 3 preceding years. vi. In addition to the above ,a person to be appointed as Chairman of the panel of Paper-setters for moderating a question paper should ordinarily have experience of setting a question paper in the subject at least thrice during the preceding ten 10 years. 2) No person shall ordinarily be eligible for appointment as an Examiner in a subject unless:- i. He holds a degree in that subject and if a member of the teaching staff or a College or a Higher Secondary School; ii. He has at least 5 years teaching experience of teaching the subject; iii. He has at least 5 years experience as a demonstrator in that Subject in a college or a teacher in a Higher Secondary School in that subject ,if he has a Master’s degree or a second class degree 10 years experience if he has a pass class degree. iv. He has the experience of teaching that subject to the top classes (i.e. IX and/or X) of a Secondary School if a teacher or a member of the teaching staff or Training Institution for at least 5 years ,if he is trained graduate and for atleast 10 years ,if he is an untrained graduate. v. He is not ordinarily out of touch with the teaching of that subject to the top classes (i.e IX and/or X) in a Secondary School or any of the classes in a College or a Higher secondary school or a recognized Note:- (a) In the case of technical subjects, a person to be appointed under clause 1) and 2) above should ordinarily have had experience of teaching the subject to the top classes (i.e. IX and /or X) in a Secondary Schools or any of the classes in a College or a Higher Secondary School, a Polytechnic or any other recognized Technical Institution: - for 3 years if he holds a degree in Engineering; for 5 years if he holds a diploma in Engineering 3) Notwithstanding any thing contained in clauses:- 1) and 2) above and the notes there under, it shall be competent for the Board . i. To decide which other examination conducted by a Rural Institute or other Examination Bodies like the Rashtra Bhasha Samiti Sabha ,etc. be held equivalent to a University degree purely for the purposes of this Rule. ii. To relax the prescribed qualification or teaching experience for appointing the required number of examiners from year to year if in any subject an adequate number of, applicants/persons with the prescribed qualifications and teaching experience as mentioned in this Rule are not available. (1) The students appearing for S.S.C. Examination of the Board shall have the option to answer the examination in any of the following languages as the medium of answer. English (ii) Marathi (iii) Urdu (iv) Konkani in Devnagari scrip. (2) The medium of answer for the H.S.S.C. Examination shall be English.