Constitution of State Agricultural Marketing Service.

(1) The State Government may. for the purpose of providing officers to the Market Committee, constitute in the prescribed manners a Service to be called Nagaland State Agriculture Marketing Service. (2) The State Government may make rules in respect of recruitment, qualification, appointment, promotion, scale of pay, leave, allowance, acting allowance., loans, pension gratuity, annuity, compassionate fund, provident fund, dismissal, removal, conduct, departmental punishment. appeals and other service conditions of the members of the State Agricultural Marketing Service. Provided that a market committee shall have the power of withholding promotion and stoppage of increment of the members of the State Agricultural Marketing service. (3)The salary. allowances, gratuity and other payments required to be made to the members of the State Agricultural Marketing Services in accordance with the conditions of their service. shall be charged on the Market Committee. 54. Secretary of Market Committee. Every Market Committee shall have a Secretary. who shall be the executive officer of the Market Committee administering principal market yard, sub-market yard(s) and market sub- yard(s)vested in it and the custodian of all the records and properties of the principal market yards. sub-market yard(s) and market sub-yard(s)in the delineated market area'. Provided that the Secretary should be graduate in agriculture/horticulture agricultural economics! marketing/agribusiness and has also tudergone minimum three months in-service training or such training undertaken after recruitment. Provided further that Managing Director may maintain a panel of professionals, which ma) include professionals from open market, for appointing to the post of Secretary to the Market Committee, as may be prescribed in the Rules. The Managing Director shall have powers to appoint Secretary from the services of the GovernmemJAdministratioflfBoard and on deputation also and such appointments shall be binding on the Market Committee.