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Section 39: Rural Areas Committee and Education Committee.

The Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, 1957Central Act · Act 66 of 1957

(1) In addition to the Standing Committee, [and the Wards Committee] referred to in section 44, there shall be a Rural Areas Committee and an Education Committee of [[the Corporation]],

(2) The Rural Areas Committee shall consist of all the councillors elected from the wards situated within the rural areas.

(3) It shall be the duty of the Rural Areas Committee---

(a) to make recommendations to [[the Corporation]]---br

(i) in relation to the functions of [[the Corporation]] which may be discharged within the rural areas and questions of policy and schemes relating to the development of such areas;

(ii) in relation to taxes which [[the Corporation]] proposes to levy in the rural areas; and

(iii) generally in relation to the expenditure that may be incurred by [[the Corporation]] for the municipal government in those areas;

(b) to review the progress of work of [[the Corporation]] in the rural areas;

(c) to bring to the notice of the appropriate municipal authorities deficiencies in the rural areas and make proposals to those authorities for the removal of such deficiencies;

(d) to discharge such other functions in relation to the rural areas as may be assigned to it by resolution made by [[the Corporation]] or by regulations made under this Act.

(4) [[The Corporation]] or any of the municipal authorities specified in section 44 shall not take any action, in relation to any of the matters specified in sub-clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) of clause (a) of sub-section (3) except in consultation with the Rural Areas Committee.

(5) The Education Committee shall consist of seven members of whom such number not exceeding three as may be determined by [[the Corporation]], shall be nominated by the Corporation, from among experts in education who are not members of [[the Corporation]] and the rest shall be elected by the members of the corporation from among themselves at the first meeting of [[the Corporation]] after each general election or as soon as possible at any other meeting subsequent thereto.

(6) The Education Committee shall exercise and perform such powers, duties and functions in relation to education in [the area of the corporation] as may be determined by regulations made in this behalf.

(7) The Rural Areas Committee as well as the Education Committee shall at its first meeting in each year elect one of its members [who is a councillor to be the Chairman and another member to be the Deputy Chairman].

Where this provision sits

ActThe Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, 1957
Section39
Marginal noteRural Areas Committee and Education Committee.
JurisdictionCentral
StatusIn force as published by the source

How this provision has been amended

Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

  • substituted, Act 67 of 1993. . Subs. by Act 67 of 1993, s. 34, for certain words (w.e.f. 1-10-1993).
  • substituted, Delhi Act 12 of 2011. . Subs. by Delhi Act 12 of 2011, s. 2, for "the Corporation" (w.e.f. 13-1-2012).
  • substituted, Act 10 of 2022. . Subs. by Act 10 of 2022, s. 2, for "a Corporation" (w.e.f. 22-5-2022).
  • substituted, Delhi Act 12 of 2011. . Subs. by Delhi Act 12 of 2011, s. 2, for "The Corporation" (w.e.f. 13-1-2012).
  • substituted, Act 10 of 2022. . Subs. by Act 10 of 2022, s. 2, for "A Corporation" (w.e.f. 22-5-2022).
  • substituted, Delhi Act 12 of 2011. . Subs by Delhi Act 12 of 2011, s. 2, for “Delhi” (w.e.f. 13-1-2012).
  • substituted. . Subs. by s. 34, ibid., for "to be the Chairman and another member to be the Deputy Chairman" (w.e.f. 1-10-1993).

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