Preamble

The Odisha Gazette

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ORISSA ACT 17 OF 1967

An Act to provide for the regulation of Grama Rakshis in the State of Orissa

BE it enacted by the Legislature of the Stae of Orissa in the Eighteenth Year of the Republic of India, as follows :

Statement of Objects and Reasons :– Following the abolition of the Chowkidary system and the reported defects in the working of the Beat constable system, the need for setting up a suitable village administrative agency to help in maintenance of law and order and certain other administrative functions at the village level was kneely felt and with this object in view it was considered necessary to introduce the Grama Rakshi Scheme.

As the matter became very urgent and as the Assembly was not in session, then, the Orissa Grama Rakshi Ordinance, 1967 had to be promulgated by the Governor of Orissa on the 10th January, 1967 to achieve the above purpose. A bill to replace the Ordinance could not be introduced in the last session of the Assembly due to want of time and therefore it was necessary for the Governor to promulgate a second Ordinance called the Orissa Grama Rakshi (No. 2) Ordinance, 1967 soon after the expiry of the first one. As the (No. 2) Ordinance is to expire on completion of six weeks from the reassembly of the legislature it is necessary to have it replaced by a law passed by the legislature.