The Secretary shall have the following powers and duties, namely:-
(a) to implement any decision taken by the Commission to discharge the duties and to exercise the powers vested in the Commission under sections 9 and 10 of the Act;
(b) to exercise necessary powers for the proper administration of the Commission and to carry out the day -to- day affairs as per the direction of the Chairperson under sub-section (7) of section 4 of the Act;
(c) to convene the meetings of the Commission in consultation with the Chairperson and to serve notices of the meeting to all concerned in time ;
(d) to ensure the quorum of the meeting of the Commission;
(e) to prepare agenda of the meeting of the Commission in consultation with the Chairperson;
(f) to make available the relevant documents related to the items in the agenda of the meeting, if necessary, to the Commission;
(g) to ensure that the agenda is circulated and received by the members, prior to the meeting ;
(h) to prepare the minutes of the meetings of the Commission and to ensure that the decisions of the meeting are implemented and ensure that action taken report of the decisions are submitted in the successive meetings;
(i) to ensure that the procedures of the functioning of the Commission are duly complied with;
(j) to submit to the Government subjects like the approval of grants, post creation, pay revision, availability of vehicles, laying of annual audit reports before the Legislative Assembly, appropriation and sanctioning of journeys to other States and abroad with the approval of the Commission and also other subjects wherein the Government sanction deems necessary;
(k) to exercise the financial powers assigned by the Government to the Commission.