It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Gram Panchayat.--
(i) to see that, all provisions of the Act, rules and bye-laws made thereunder and all orders issued or action authorised by the State Government or Director or any other competent authority, are complied with by the Gram Panchayats and shall bring to their notice any irregularity or omission on their part ;
(ii) To carry out the lawful orders of the Gram Panchayat and the Pradhan or Up-Pradhan and to perform other duties and to exercise any other powers as may be assigned to or conferred on him by or under the Act or these rules or any other law for the time being in force ;
(iii) to maintain and up date all prescribed records and registers under the general supervision of the Pradhan and, in his absence the Up-Pradhan. The Secretary shall also be solely responsible for the safe custody of cash in hand and immovable/moveable property of the Gram Panchayat within the overall supervision of the Pradhan or in his absence, of the Up-Pradhan, and, he shall further be responsible for keeping true accounts of the money received in Sabha fund and disbursed out of it ;
(iv) the Panchayat Secretary will maintain daily diary showing therein briefly the work done in all working days in a month and shall submit a copy thereof to the BDO in monthly staff meeting. The BDO will keep a record of these diaries and reflect the assessment in the ACRs of the concerned official;
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(v) to perform such other duties as may be assigned to him by the Director or the Deputy Commissioner from time to time.