(1) This Act may be called the Assam Venture Sanskrit and Pali Educational Institutions ( Provincialisation o f Services) Act, 2012.
(2) It extends to the whole o f Assam.
(3) It shall come into force on such dale as the Stale Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint and different dates may be appointed for different provisions o f the Act or for different category o f Venture Sanskrit and Pali Educational Institutions.
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-
(a) “Deputy Director o f Sanskrit Education” means the Deputy Director o f Sanskrit Education and includes Assistant Director o f Sanskrit Education;
(b) “Director” means Director o f Higher Education, Assam and includes Additional Director or Deputy Director o f Sanskrit Education or Assistant Director o f Sanskrit Education;
(c) "Employee" means and includes all serving employees both teaching and non-teaching o f Venture Sanskrit and Pali Educational Institutions who have been appointed by the Governing BodyZManagiag Committee o f the concerned Venture Sanskrit and Pali Educational Institution before first day o f January,2012 and whose services are being or would be considered for being provincialised under this Act;
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(d) "Governing Body" means the Governing Body o f Sanskrit College approved by the appropriate authority as notified by the State Government for carrying out the management o f the college;
(e) “ Inspector o f Schools" means the Inspector o f Schools in the concerned District and unless the context otherwise requires, it includes an Assistant Inspector o f Schools o f the same District;
(f) "Managing Committee" means the Managing Committee approved by the appropriate authority as notified by the State Government for carrying out the management o f the concerned Venture Sanskrit and Pali Education Institution;
(g) “provincialised Sanskrit and Pali Educational Institution" or "Provincialised Sanskrit College" means a Venture Sanskrit or Pali Educational Institution o r Venture Sanskrit College wherein the services o f employees are provincialised or being considered to be provincialised under this Act;
(h) "prescribed" means prescribed by the rules made under this Act;
( i) "State Sanskrit Education Board" means the Assam Sanskrit Board, constituted under the provisions o f the Assam Education Department.
Rules and orders;
(j) “State Government" means the State Government o f Assam in the Education (Higher) Department;
(k) "Scrutiny Committee" means the scrutiny committee constituted under section 10 o f this A ct to recommend names o f Venture Sanskrit and Pali Educational Institutions which are considered eligible fo r provincialisation o f the services o f the employees serving therein;
( l) "Sanskrit Education" means a system o f special classical education in which lessons are imparted on the subjects o f Sanskrit, Pali, Veda, Vedanta, Jyotish, Karmakanda, Kalap, Ratnamala, Panini, Mughdhabodh, Kavya, Mimangsha along with general subjects like Modem Indian Language, English, Mathematics, General Science, Social Science upto Secondary level, the syllabi, curriculum, and examination which are regulated by the Assam Sanskrit Board upto the level o f Prayesika Examination, the second level is Madhyama and third level is Shastri (title);
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(m) "Venture Sanskrit and Pali Educational Institution" means Venture Sanskrit Educational Institution such as Tol, Vidyalaya, Chotuspathi, Vidyapith and Sanskrit College or Venture Pali Educational Institution such as • Tol or Vidyalaya, as the case may be, which have been established by the people o f the locality before
1.1.2006 and which have received permission and recognition from the Assam Sanskrit Board before 01.01.2006 and which have not been provincialised under any Act enacted by the State Legislature so far.