Information, returns, etc. to be provided by Board

(1) The Board shall furnish to the Government such reports, returns and statements as may be required by the Government and such further information relating to any matters connected with its work as the Government may call for.

(2) The Government may, after considering any such report, return, statements or information furnished, give such directions consistent with this Act as may be necessary and the Board shall comply with such directions. The Employees of the Board shall be entitled for pension and all other retirement gratuity as applicable to their counterparts in the Government service and shall be governed by the pension/family pension scheme as contained in the Central Civil Service (pension) rules, 1972 as may be amended from time to time. Employees who are in service of the Goa, Daman and Diu Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board and are eligible for the contributory Provident Fund Scheme shall give option either to continue under the contributory Provided Fund Scheme or to be governed by pension/Rules, 1972 as may be amended from time to time and this option shall be exercised with in a period with three months from the date of coming in to force of the Amendment Rules. In case the employees fail to exercise the requisite option within the stipulated period, he shall be deemed to have opted for retention of Contributory Provident Fund Scheme and other benefits admissible to him prior to the date of coming in to force of the Amenadant rules, and in case of death of such employee, his family shall be eligible for the benefit of the Contributory Provident Fund Scheme. 2. The monitory liability of the pension/family pension and all other retirement benefits including death-cum-retirement gratuity shall be borne by the Government and shall be met from the consolidated Fund of the State of Goa. The Board shall specify the qualification, eligibility conditions, powers, duties and responsibilities of other staff appointed in the work of conduct of examination separately in the Manual for conduct of examination.