Conduct of Business

1. (a) Meeting of the Council shall be held on such dates as may be fixed by the Chairman. Every notice calling a meeting of the Council shall state the time & place where such meeting will be held and shall be served upon every member of the Council not less than fifteen days before the day appointed for the meeting provided that the Chairman may convenc a special meeting of the Council whenever the thinks fit or at the written request of one fourth of the members of the Council.
2. (b) The Annual meeting of the Council shall be held every year generally in the month of November/December.
3. (c) Other meeting of the Council shall be held as many times as may be required for the work but the intervening period between any two consecutive meetings shall not exceed three months.
4. (d) One-third of the members shall constitute the quorum at any meeting of the Council. No quorum shall be necessary for a meeting adjourned for want of quorum and the members present may transact the business for which the meeting was called for.
5. (e) The Council shall lay down the Rules of procedure to be followed in its meeting.
6. (f) The Council may invite such person to attend its meeting who in its opinion is an expert in any field of education- Provided that the subject with which the expert is concerned is likely to be discussed in that meeting. Such invited person may participate in the deliberations of the Council, but he shall have no right to vote.
7. (g) No member of the Council shall vote on any such subject in which his personal interest is involved or the subject is connected with such Institution of which he is a teacher or a member of the Governing Body.
8. (h) All the issues in the meeting will be decided by majority vote. In the event of equality of votes, the Chairman shall have the right of casting vote.
   • (i) Any note of dissent by any member shall be recorded in the minutes of the meeting.

6. The following shall be inserted in section –7 of chapter 2 of the Act

as Section 7(3), 7(4), 7(5) & 7(6).

7.(3) Purpose and power of the Council:-

1. (a) To advice the State Govt. on all such matters concerning Intermediate (+2) Education, Secondary Education, and such other institution like Sanskrit and Madrasa as may be referred to it for advice by the State Govt.
2. (b) To advice the State Government for de-linking the Intermediate Education from Degree College.
3. (c) To prepare syllabus, courses of study and curriculum for Intermediate (+2) Secondary, Madhyama and Madrasa Education and to prescribe the same after due approval of the Govt.
4. (d) To promote physical, moral and social welfare of students of Institutions, to create sense of discipline amongst them.
5. (e) To recommend fro reduction or stopping maintenance grant or any other grant, if any recognized Institution has failed to implement any of the conditions of recognition, or the Institution is being run in such a way as may be prejudicial to the interest of education or fails to comply with any order issued by the Council for maintenance of the prescribed teaching standard.
6. (f) To determine the requirements and standard in connection with laboratory, library, apparatus, writing materials and other articles.
7. (g) To prescribe the number of students for admission in any class of any institution.
8. (h) To prescribe academic session and holidays for the institutions with the approval of the State Govt.
   • (i) To call for any report or information from any institution.
9. (j) To consider Annual reports and Annual Accounts and to approve them and to prepare and forward financial estimate of the same to the State Govt. for approval.
10. (k) To create, with the prior approval of the State Govt., posts of officers and employees of the Council.
11. (l) To make Rules for the service conditions of officers and other employees of the Council other than the Chairman and the Secretary with the prior approval of the State Govt.
12. (m) To make appointments to the sanctioned posts of officers of the Council other than the Chairman and the Secretary, in the manner prescribed and to take disciplinary action against them. 4. Arrangement of teaching of Intermediate (+2) standard in the Colleges managed by or affiliated to University:- The Council may make for arrangements of proper teaching examinations etc. of Intermediate (+2) classes attached to Degree colleges in consultation with the concerned university authorities.

5. Review of the recognition of recognized Institutions:

1. (1) With a view to as certaining whether or not the institution is fulfilling the prescribed conditions and maintaining the proper standard of teaching and discipline, the Council shall review the cases of recognition of institutions every three years or before that at such intervals as it may consider necessary.
2. (2) As a result of the review for proper and sufficient reasons, if the Council considers it necessary. It shall be competent to recommend to the Government for withdrawal of permission given to the Institution concerned.
3. (3) Where the recognition of any institutions is withdrawn and its name is removed from the register of the Council, the certificate of registration to the authority of the management of the institution shall be deemed to be cancelled. The Council shall notify the cancellation of recognition in the newspaper.

7.6 Power of the Council for constitution of Governing Body/Managing

Committee of recognized Institutions.

1. (1) There shall be Governing body/Managing Committee constituted by the Council for the management and administration of each recognized Intermediate (+2), Secondary, Madhyama (Sanskrit) and Madrasa Institution other than an Institution maintained by State Govt. or an institution administered by a minority community on the basis of religion or language. It shall consist of following members.
   • (i) Head of the institution Ex-officio Member.
   • (ii) A representative of the Council to be nominated by the Council.
   • (iii) A member of State Legislature, within whose constituency the institution in situated Ex-officio member.
   • (iv) An officer of the State Govt. posted in the district not below the rank of a Sub-divisional officer nominated by the Deputy commissioner.
   • (v) One member elected by and from amongst the teacher of the institution.
   • (vi) One member to be elected by and from amongst donors as have donated at least Rs. 25,000/- to the institution.
   • (vii) One member to be co-opted by the Governing Body/Managing Committee from amongst such educationists or persons reputed for Having academic interests who reside in the district, where the Institution is located.
   • (viii) District Education Officer of the District ex-officio.
2. (2) The term of office of the members of the Governing Body/Managing Committee other than the ex-officio members shall be three years and their powers and functions shall be such as may be prescribed by the rules.
3. (3) No proceedings of the Governing Body/Managing Committee of the recognized Institution shall be invalid merely by the existence of vacancy or vacancies amongst its members.