(1) The Government shall appoint the Managing Director as provided in sub-section (1) of section 4, a Chief Engineer, a Superintending Engineer, a Chief Accounts & Finance Officer and such other officers as may be required.
(2) The Corporation may, with the prior approval of the Government, appoint such other officers and servants subordinate to the officers mentioned in sub-section (1) as it considers necessary for the efficient performance of its duties and functions.
Filling up of casual vacancies of Members.
Acts or Proceedings not to be invalidated by vacancy or informality etc., Officers and servants of Corporation.
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(3) The conditions of appointment and service of the officers and servants and their scales of pay shall,-
(a) as regards the officers mentioned in sub-section
(1) be such;
(b) as regards the officers and servants mentioned in sub-section (2) be such as may be laid down from time to time by regulations.
(4) Where any officers and employees belonging to any category in any Department of the Government are likely to be rendered surplus wholly or partially to the requirements of the Government due to the functioning of the Corporation by or under this Act or where services of such officers and employees are required by the Corporation for efficient exercise of its powers, performance of its duties or discharge of its functions, the Government or any officer duly authorized by the Government in this behalf may, by order, depute such officers and employees to the Corporation as may be found necessary from time to time, who shall be accordingly employed by the Corporation on deputation and their salaries and allowances shall be paid from the Corporation Fund.
(5) The period of deputation of any such officer or employee to the corporation shall ordinarily be five years, on expiry of which, such officer or employee shall stand repatriated to his parent service except when any such person is required by the Government to be repatriated earlier on such grounds as promotion, revertion, termination or superannuation or any other reason:
Provided that, during the period of such deputation all matters relating to the pay, leave, allowances, retirement, pension, provident fund and other conditions of service of such person on deputation shall be regulated by such rules [Act No.37 of 1998] 11 governing such matters at the time of the deputation or such other rules as may, from time to time, be made by the State Government, but they shall not be entitled to any deputation allowance.
(6) All such persons on deputation to the Corporation shall continue to have a lien on their posts in their parent service and the period of their service on deputation under the Corporation shall, on their repatriation to their parent service, be counted for increments, pension and other matters related to their service.
(7) The Corporation shall have the authority to transfer the officers, employees and servants to any area of its operation.
(8) Save as otherwise provided in this section, the terms and conditions of service of the officers and employees on deputation to the Corporation shall not be less advantageous than those applicable to them immediately before such deputation and shall not be varied to their disadvantage except with the previous sanction of the State Government.
(9) Subject to the superintendence of the Corporation, the Managing Director shall supervise and control all its officers and employees including any officers and employees of the Government appointed on deputation to the Corporation.
13. No person who has, directly or indirectly, by himself or by his partner or agent, any share or interest in any contract, by or on behalf of the Corporation or in any employment under by or on behalf of the Corporation otherwise than as an officer or servant thereof, shall be qualified to be an officer or servant of the Corporation.
Disqualification of all officers and servants.
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14. All proceedings of the Corporation shall, be authenticated by the Chairman and all orders and instruments of the Corporation shall be authenticated by the Managing Director or any other officer of the Corporation as may be authorised in this behalf by regulations.
CHAPTER – III PROPERTY, ASSETS, LIABILITIES AND OBLIGATIONS
15. The Government may from time to time by notification, vest in or as the case may be, entrust to the Corporation, any water supply projects, sewerages and sewage projects, sanitation projects, other infrastructure projects works under construction, management of completed schemes, or any other works or projects specified in that behalf which vested in the Government and are under the control of the Panchayat Raj and Rural Development Department or the Municipal Administration and Urban Development Department, or any other Department of the Government:
Provided that any such vesting or entrustment in respect of any project or work or scheme situated within the jurisdiction of a Cantonment Board constituted under the *Cantonments Act 1924, shall be to the extent of any agreement with such Cantonment Board only.