Powers and Duties of the Chairman

The chairman of the Board shall be the principal academic and controlling officer of the board and shall preside over at the meetings of the Board and any convocations of the Board. He shall be an ex-officio member and the chairman of the Executive Council, the Academic Council, the Examination Committee, the Finance Committee and the Recognition Committee. He shall be entitled to be present, with the right to speak at any meeting of any authority or body of the Board, the Executive Council, the Academic Council, the Examination Committee and the other bodies or committees of the Board. He may delegates, by a regulation, this power to any other officer of the Board. The Chairman of the Board shall have power to convene meetings of the Board, the Executive Council, the Academic Council, the Examination Committee, the Recognition Committee, the Finance Committee and the other bodies or committees of the Board. He may delegates, by a regulation, this power to any other officer of the Board. It shall be the duty of the Chairman of the board to ensure that the Act, the rules and regulations made thereunder are faithfully observed and he shall have all powers necessary for this purpose. If there are reasonable grounds for the Chairman of the Board to believe that there is an emergency which requires immediate action to be taken, he shall take such actions as he deems necessary and shall, at the earliest opportunity thereafter, report his action to such authority or body as would have in the ordinary course dealt with the matter. In the event of dispute arising between the Chairman of the Board and the authority or body as to whether there was in fact an emergency the matter shall be referred to the Board, the decision of which shall be final. The Chairman of the Board shall be responsible for the administration of the affairs of the Board in accordance with the Act, the rules and regulations made thereunder and shall give effect to the decision of the Executive Council and other authorities or bodies of the Board which are not inconsistent with the provisions aforesaid. It shall be lawful for the Chairman of the Board, as the Principal executive officer, to regulate the work and conduct of the officers and members of the administrative and ministerial staff of the Board in accordance with the provisions of this Act, and the rules and regulations made thereunder. Where any matter is required to be regulated by a regulations, the Chairman of the Board may, for the time being, regulate the matter by issuing such directives as he thinks necessary, and shall at the earliest opportunity thereafter, place them before the Executive Council or other authority or body concerned for approval. The Chairman of the Board shall exercise such other powers as may be prescribed. Subject to the provisions of the Act and the Rules and under overall control of the Chairman, the Secretary shall also perform the following duties and functions :- (i) As the custodian of the common seal, building, records, library and such other properties, movable and immovable vesting in, held by or under the control of the Board to arrange for the maintenance of a proper inventory and ensure proper care and up-keep of the same; (ii) To report to the Director of Accounts, Panaji, every case of loss of the Board’s property of a value exceeding Rs. 200/-; (iii) To conduct all correspondence of the Board under the authority of the chairman; (iv) To function as Treasurer of the Board and to receive all fees and other dues payable to the Board and all sums intended for the Board and to credit all such moneys without delay, to the Board’s appropriate accounts in the Bank and to keep proper accounts of all sums received by him in this capacity as Secretary and of expenditure of all moneys of the Board for which such moneys have been granted or allotted; (v) To arrange for preparation and submission of the annual, revised or supplementary budget estimates of the income and expenditure of the Board and the annual accounts of receipts and expenditure of the Board, in accordance with the provisions of the Act and the Rules. (vi) To arrange for the preparation, printing and publications of the annual report of the Board; (vii) To supervise the Board’s library and forward to convenors of the Board’s of Studies books received from the Department or from the authors or publishers and at the request of the convenors, circulate the same among the members of the Board of Studies; (viii) To issue prospectus or circulars, notices etc. relating to curriculum and textbooks prescribed or sanctioned for the Examinations held under the authority of the Board. 2) The Secretary shall exercise the following powers namely: - (i) To sign pay bills of the employees of the Board, working in his office and to pass for payment all traveling allowance bills, other than those of the members of the Board, its Committees and Gazetted Officers of the Board working in the Board’s office; (ii) To grant leave other than special disability leave to the class IV servants of the Board working in Board’s office and to appoint substitutes in their place; (iii) Subject to the budget provision sanctioned under sub-section (5) of section 39 of the Act to sanction the purchase or hire of store, forms stationery furniture and other equipment required for the Board’s office or to enter into contract for the purpose of the Act, if the cost of each such purchase or hire or the expenditure involved in a contract does not exceed Rs. 100/-; (iv) To supply on request, free of charge, priced publications of the Board for official use, to Government and semi-Government bodies and to Universities or educational or public bodies and to eminent visitors to the Board’s office; (v) To supervise control and co-ordinate the work of his subordinate officers and staff in the Board’s office; (vi) To determine and assign the duties to be performed and powers to be exercised by the Joint Secretary and the Assistant Secretary in the Board’s office, under general or special orders of the Chairman; (vii) To make all necessary arrangements for the conduct of final examinations to be held by the Board, in accordance with the directions of the Executive Council, Examination, Committee and the Chairman; (viii) To arrange for the tabulation of the marks in various subjects and the preparation of result sheets of the final examinations conducted by the Board; (ix) To issue on behalf of the Board, certificates (in the form prescribed by the Board) of having passed the Board’s Examinations, to successful candidates; (x) To furnish the Education Department, annually, with a list of schools recognized by the Board, specifying the period and subject or subjects in which recognition has been granted; (xi) To decide cases of admission of candidates to the final Examinations conducted by the Board; (xii) To submit to the Chairman doubtful cases of admission to the candidates to the final examination for decision.