(1) The Committee may appoint such number of officers and other employees, as it considers necessary, for the efficient performance of its functions and duties, and may, from time to time, determine the number, designations, grades and scales of pay or other remuneration of the officers and other employees and may at any time reduce, suspend, remove or dismiss or impose any other penalty on any officer or any other employee for dereliction of duty, unfitness, neglect or negligence of duty or any other misconduct.
(2) The officers and other employees appointed under sub-section
(1) shall exercise such powers and perform such duties, as may be prescribed or as may, from time to time, be delegated by the Committee.
(3) The terms and conditions of service of the officers and other employees shall be subject to such terms and conditions, as may be prescribed :
Provided that all employees working presently under the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee or any local management of the Gurdwaras from the date of commencement of this Act shall be deemed to be under the employment of the new management/committee or the Executive Board or the local management of the Gurdwara:
Provided further that the service conditions of the existing employees shall be governed by the rules as applicable to them at the time of commencement of this Act, till the rules and regulations are framed under this Act.
Officers and other employees of the Committee.
CHAPTER–III POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF THE COMMITTEE
24. Subject to the provisions of this Act and the rules made thereunder, the control, direction and general superintendence over all the Gurdwaras and Gurdwara property within the State of Haryana shall vest in the Committee, and it shall be the duty of the Committee —
(i) to arrange for the proper performance of the religious rites and rituals and ceremonies in the Gurdwaras;
Powers and functions of the Committee.
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(ii) to provide facilities for worship by the devotees at the Gurdwaras;
(iii) to ensure safe custody of its funds, movable and immovable properties, deposits, offerings either in cash or in kind and proper utilization of funds, in the manner, as may be prescribed;
(iv) to do all such things or functions as may be incidental and conducive to the efficient management of the affairs of the Gurdwaras, educational and other institutions under the Committee and other properties;
(v) to provide suitable accommodation and facilities for pilgrimage to devotees;
(vi) to maintain free langars to the visiting devotees;
(vii) to manage the historical and other Gurdwaras, educational and other institutions and their properties in such a way so as to promote Sikh tradition, culture, heritage and religion;
(viii) to ensure the maintenance of order, discipline and proper hygienic conditions in Gurdwaras, educational and other institutions under its management;
(ix) to open free dispensaries for medical check up and proper assistance to the visiting devotees;
(x) to spread education, culture and Sikh heritage, especially the knowledge of the Punjabi in Gurmukhi script;
(xi) to establish educational, engineering, medical, Information and Technology institutions, research centres and Libraries;
(xii) to render sufficient financial assistance to religious and educational institutions, societies and also to arrange for financial assistance to needy persons in harness;
(xiii) to arrange stipends to poor, needy and deserving students studying in the schools or institutions managed by the Committee;
(xiv) to render help in the case of upliftment of the Sikh Community and propagation of Sikh religion, tenets, rites and rituals as per Sikh “Maryada”;
(xv) to arrange for the pilgrimage of the Sikh devotees belonging to the State of Haryana to places of worship and Sikh Gurdwaras in Pakistan or other parts of the world in consultation with the State or the Central Government, as the case may be;
(xvi) to entertain and perform such other functions and to do such religious or charitable acts, as may be prescribed for carrying out the ideals and high traditions of Sikhism for achieving the ends for the purposes of this Act.
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CHAPTER-IV GURDWARA FUND, ACCOUNT AND AUDIT