Appointment of a Secretary

(1) A Gram Panchayat or a group of Gram Panchayats shall have a Secretary who shall be appointed by the panchayat Samiti in the manner prescribed: provided that any person appointed as Secretary of any Gram Panchayat or a group of Gram Panchayats before the commencement of the Punjab Gram Panchayats (Amendment) Act, 1963, shall be deemed to have been appointed by the Panchayat Samiti. (2) Subject to such rules as may be made in this behalf, the Panchayat Samiti may, for making payment of the remuneration, leave salary and allowances to the Secretary so appointed or deemed to have been appointed, levy contributions from the Sabha Funds concerned in such proportion as may be fixed by it. (3) Subject to such rules as may be made in this behalf a Panchayat Samiti may, either suo motu or on receiving a report from the Gram Panchayat, transfer, suspend, dismiss or otherwise punish a Secretary of a Gram Panchayat or a group of Panchayats. (4) It shall be the duty of the Secretary, under the general supervision of the Sarpanch, to assist the Gram Panchayat or Gram Panchayats, as the case may be, in the discharge of its or their functions under this Act or under any other law for the time being in force.