Maharashtra Excise Manual
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9. Measures and precautions to be taken during Special Gram Sabha.

9. Measures and precautions to be taken during Special Gram Sabha.

  1. The voters gathered for the Special Gram Sabha should be identified ensuring their names in the electoral rolls and then be given access to Gram Sabha.

  2. No person who is not a voter of that village should be allowed to enter the Special Gram Sabha.

  3. The Tahsildar shall put before the Gram Sabha the purpose of convening the meeting and address to the Gram Sabha, explaining the intention of the provisions of the Act and that of the rules to establish Gram Rakshak Dal. The Tahsildar shall instruct the voters to suggest the names of the members to establish Gram Rakshak Dal.

10. Eligibility criteria for appointing a member of Gram Rakshak Dal.

  • The person should be a voter of the village;

  • The person should have done appreciable work regarding prohibition;

  • The person should be a teetotaller;

  • No crime should have been registered against the person in the past under Indian Penal Code or any other Act in which provision of punishment is more than three years.

11. Selection of members of Gram Rakshak Dal.

  1. Total number of members of Gram Rakshak Dal shall be equal to the number of members of that Village Panchayat, but the number of members in any case shall not be more than eleven.

  2. The number of women members of the Gram Rakshak Dal shall not be less than one-third of the total members.

  3. The Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes category members should be in proportion to the population of such castes and tribes to the population of the village. If no suitable member is available from these categories then members from other categories may be selected.

12. Selection of Chairperson and Member-Secretary of Gram Rakshak Dal.

  1. In the first meeting of the Gram Rakshak Dal, the Chairperson and Member-Secretary shall be elected by majority from amongst the members.

  2. The tenure of the Chairperson, Member-Secretary and member shall be co-terminus with the tenure of the Gram Rakshak Dal.

  3. The resignation of the Chairperson shall be submitted to the Member-Secretary. The resignation of the Member-Secretary and member shall be submitted to the Chairperson.

  4. The meeting of the Gram Rakshak Dal shall be conveyed at least once in three months.

  5. If the members of the Gram Rakshak Dal decide to remove or appoint a new Chairperson of the Gram Rakshak Dal, may submit an application with signature of not less than three members to the Member-Secretary, with request to convene a Special meeting of the Gram Rakshak Dal. The members of the Gram Rakshak Dal shall select the Chairperson by majority.

  6. It is mandatory to send the minutes of the meetings of the Gram Rakshak Dal to Sub-Divisional Magistrate, Police station and State Excise Department having jurisdiction over the village and to the Village Panchayat.

  7. The Member-Secretary of the Gram Rakshak Dal shall keep the record of minutes of the meetings of the Gram Rakshak Dal in Form-C and other record of the Gram Rakshak Dal.