Chhattisgarh Goseva Ayog Act, 2004
No: 23 Dated: Jan, 18 2005
Chhattisgarh Goseva Ayog Act, 2004
No. 23 of 2004
An Act to establish a Goseva Ayog for the preservation and welfare of cattle in the State, for supervision and control of institutions and to provide for matters connected therewith and incidental thereto.
Be it enacted by the Chhattisgarh Legislature in the fifty-fifth Year of the Republic of India as follows :
1. Short title and commencement. - (1) This Act may be called the Chhattisgarh Goseva Ayog Act, 2004.
(2) It extends to the whole of the State of Chhattisgarh.
(3) It shall come into force from the date of its publication in the Official Gazette.
2. Definitions. - In this Act unless the context otherwise requires :-
(a) "Ayog" means the Chhattisgarh Goseva Ayog established under Section 3;
(b) "Agriculture Cattle" means cows of all ages, calves of cows and of she buffaloes, bulls, bullocks, male and female buffaloes;
(c) "Chairperson" means the Chairperson of the Ayog;
(d) "Institution" means any charitable institution engaged in cattle welfare and established for the purpose of keeping, breeding, rearing and maintaining cattle or for the purpose of reception, protection, care, management and treatment of infirm, aged and diseased cattle and includes Gosadhan, Goshala, Pinjrapole, Gorakshan Sansthan and their Federation or Union registered under any enactment for the time being in force or otherwise;
(e) "Member" means a member of the Ayog or its committee and includes the Chairperson.
3. Constitution of Ayog. - The State Government shall constitute a body to be known as the Goseva Ayog. The Ayog shall consists of the Chairperson and the following members :
1. Ex-officio members.-
(i) Agriculture Production Commissioner;
(ii) Secretary, Rural Development Department;
(iii) Director, Veterinary Services;
(iv) Director, Agriculture;
(v) Registrar, Co-operative Societies;
(vi) Secretary/Additional Secretary, Agriculture (Veterinary);
(vii) Director General of Police;
(viii) An Officer to be nominated by Finance Department not below the rank of Deputy Secretary;
(ix) An Officer of State Bank of India not below the rank of Asstt. General Manager;
(x) Additional Director/Joint Director of Veterinary Services, who shall also be the Secretary of the Ayog;
(xi) Five non-official members to be nominated by the State Government preferably from persons having interest in cattle welfare;
2. The Ayog may invite officers or expert as special invitees as and when necessary.
3. The State Government may constitute district and block level committees as may be prescribed under rules.
4. Members to be nominated by the State Government. - (1) The State Government shall appoint Chairperson and Members of the Ayog.
(2) Chairperson and non-official members of the Ayog shall hold office for a period of three years from the date of the appointment.
5. Disqualification. - No person shall be eligible for appointment as a non-official member if he-
(a) is not a citizen of India;
(b) has not attained the age of twenty one years;
(c) has been adjudged by a Competent Court to be of unsound mind;
(d) has been sentenced by any Court to imprisonment for an offence involving moral turpitude;
(e) has been dismissed from the service of the Government for misconduct and has been declared to be disqualified for employment in public service, and
(f) is an undischarged insolvent.
6. Terms and conditions of appointment of members of the Ayog. - (1) There shall be paid to the non-official members such allowances as may be prescribed.
(2) A non-official member may resign his office in writing under his hand addressed to the State Government.
(3) The State Government shall remove a member from the office of non-official member if he :
(a) becomes an undischarged insolvent;
(b) is convicted for an offence, which, involves moral turpitude;
(c) is declared unsound mind by Competent Court;
(d) remains without obtaining leave of absence from the Ayog, remains absent from three consecutive meetings; or
(e) has, in the opinion of the State Government so abused the position of Chairperson or Members as to render that person to continue in office being detrimental to the interests of cattle or the public interest.
7. Casual vacancy. - In the event of death, resignation or disqualification of a non-official member or of his becoming in capable of acting before the expiry of his term of office, a casual vacancy shall be deemed to have occurred in such office and such vacancy shall be filled as early as possible by appointment of a person thereto as member who shall hold office for the unexpired term.
8. Headquarter and meetings of the Ayog. - (1) The Headquarter of the Ayog shall be at Raipur.
(2) The Ayog shall hold meetings at least twice in a year and shall keep record of its proceedings.
(3) The meetings of the Ayog shall be convened by the Chairperson who shall, preside the meeting and in the absence of the Chairperson, the members present shall elect one from amongst themselves to preside.
9. Vacancy not to invalidated proceedings. - No act or proceeding of the Ayog shall be deemed to be invalid by reason merely of any vacancy in, or any defect in the constitution of the Ayog.
10. Appointment of officers and others employees. - Subject to such rules as may be made in this behalf, the State Government may, for the purpose of enabling the Ayog to efficiently discharge its functions under this Act, provide such number of officers and other employees as may be considered necessary.
11. Registration of Institutions and audit of their accounts. - (1) On the commencement of this Act every Institution shall within 3 months thereof submit an application for registration under this Act in such manner as may be prescribed.
(2) The application shall be accompanied by such fees as may be prescribed.
(3) The Ayog shall after such enquiry as it deems fit issue a certificate of registration in such form as may be prescribed.
(4) The Ayog shall maintain a register of institution registered with it in such forms as may be prescribed.
(5) Whenever any change occurs in any of the particulars relating to any institution recorded in the register as prescribed under sub-section (4), the person entrusted to act on behalf of the institution shall report the change to the Ayog which shall after such enquiry as it deems fit make the necessary changes in the register.
(6) The accounts of every institution which has been registered under this Act, shall, be prepared each year on the thirty-first day of March and its accounts shall be audited annually in the prescribed manner.