Procedure of Committees

(1) The State Government may make Rules relating to election of members of the Committees, conduct of business therein and all other matters relating to them. (2) The President of every Committee shall in respect of the work of the Committee be entitled to call for any information, return, statement, or report from the office of the Panchayat Samiti and to enter on and inspect any immovable property of the Panchayat Samiti or watch the programmes connected with the work of the Committee. (3) Each Committee shall be entitled to require attendance at its meeting of any officer of the Panchayat Samiti who is connected with the work of the Committee. The Secretary shall, under instruction of the Committee, issue notices and secure attendance of the officer. (4) The Secretary to the Standing Committee shall, in consultation with the President, convene the meetings of that Committee. (5) The President or any member of a Standing Committee may resign his office by giving notices in writing to the Chairman and, on such resignation being accepted by the Panchayat Samiti, President or such member shall be deemed to have vacated his office. (6) The President and members shall be paid out of the Panchayat Samiti Fund such sitting fees and the President shall be entitled to leave of absence for such period or periods and on such terms and conditions, as the State Government may, by order direct or may, by rules, made in this behalf, prescribe. (3) Construction and maintenance of office building of Zilla Parishad. (4) Identification of major link roads connection markets, educational institutions and health centres. (5) Organising voluntary surrender of lands for new roads and for widening of existing roads. (O) Health and hygiene. (1) Assisting in establishment and maintenance of hospitals, primary health centres and dispensaries except medical college hospitals, T.B. sanitoriums, leprosy hospitals and mental hospitals. (2) Implementation of immunisation and vaccination programme. (3) Health education activities. (4) Maternity and child health activities. (5) Family welfare activities. (6) Organisation health camps with Panchayat Samiti and Gram Panchayat. (7) Measures against environment pollution. (P) Rural housing. (1) Identification of houseless families. (2) Implementation of house building programmes in the district. (3) Popularising low cost housing. (Q) Education. (1) Promotion of educational activities including establishment and maintenance of primary and secondary schools. (2) Planning of programmes for adult education and library facilities. (3) Extension work for propagation of science and technology in rural areas. (4) survey and evaluation of educational activities. (5) Establishment and maintenance of general hostels, ashram schools and orphanages. (R) Social welfare and welfare of weaker sections. (1) Extension of educational facilities to the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes and the Backward Classes by giving scholarships, stipends, boarding grants and other grants for the purchase of books and other accessories. (2) Managing hotels for the benefit of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes. (3) Organising nursery schools, balawadis, night schools and libraries to eradicate illiteracy and impart general education. (4) Conduct of model welfare centres and craft centres to train the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes in cottage and rural industries. (5) Managing residential basic schools for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes. (6) Providing facilities for marketing of goods produced by members of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes. (7) Organising co-operative societies of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes. (8) Other welfare schemes for the uplift and development of the Scheduled Castes and the Schduled Tribes. (S) Poverty alleviation programmes. Planning, supervision, monitoring and implementation of poverty alleviation programmes. (T) Social reform activities. (1) Women's organisation and welfare. (2) Children's organisation and welfare. (3) Local vagrancy relief. (4) Maintenance of social welfare institutions such as poor home, orphanages, rescue shelters, etc. (5) Assisting in sanctioning and distribution of pension for widows, old and physically disabled destitutes and allowances for unemployed and couples of inter-caste marriages in which one party is a member of a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe. (6) Campaign against superstition, casteism, untouchability, alcoholism, expensive marriages and social functions, dowry and conspicuous consumption. (7) Encouraging community marriages and inter-caste marriages. (8) Vigilance against economic offences such as smuggling, tax evasion, food adulteration, etc. (9) Assistance for developing lands assigned to landless labourers. (10) Assisting in resumption of land alienated by tribals. (11) Identify, free and rehabilitate bonded labour. (12) Organise culture and recreational activities. (13) Encouragement of sports and games and construction of rural stadia. (14) Give new form and social content to traditional festivals. (15) Verification of weights and measures in shopping establishments. (16) Promotion of thrift and savings through-- (a) promotion of saving habits; (b) small savings campaign; and (c) fight against spurious money lending practices and rural indebtedness. (2) In addition, the Zilla Parishad may-- (a) manage or maintain any work of public utility or any institution vested in it or under its control and management; (b) acquire and maintain village huts and markets; (c) make grants to Panchayat Samiti or Gram Panachayat; (d) adopt measures for the relief of distress; (e) co-ordinate and integrate the development plans and schemes prepared by Panchayat Samitis in the District; (f) examine and sanction the budget estimates of Panchayat Samiti or Panchayat Samitis in the District; (g) undertake or execute any scheme extending to more than one Block; and (h) take over the maintenance and control of any rural bridge, tank, ghat, well, channel or drain belonging to a private owner or any other authority on such terms as may be agreed upon. (3) The Zilla Parishad may be vested by the State Government with such powers under any Act as the Government may deem fit. (4) The Zilla Parishads of two or more adjacent Districts may jointly undertake and execute any development scheme on such terms and conditions as may be mutually agreed upon.