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Regional Empowered Committee

A Regional Empowered Committee is constituted at the Regional Office of the Ministry of Environment and Forests.

 

Composition

Function

Terms of appointment of non-official members

 

Composition of the Regional Empowered Committee

The Regional Empowered Committee shall consist of the following members:

  1. The Regional Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (central), as Chairperson.
  2. Three non-official members who shall be experts one each in Mining, Civil Engineering and Development Economics, as members.
  3. The Conservator of Forests or the Deputy Conservator of Forests in the Regional Office, as Member Secretary.

Functions

The Regional Empowered Committee shall decide on a proposal involving diversion of forest land up to forty hectares other than the proposals relating to mining and encroachments referred to it by the state government or the Union Territory Administration.

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Terms of appointment of non-official members of the Regional Empowered Committee

  1. A non-official member shall hold his office for a period of two years.

  2. A non-official member shall cease to hold office if he becomes of unsound mind, becomes insolvent or is convicted by Court of law on a criminal offence involving moral turpitude.

  3. A non-official member may be removed from his office if he fails to attend three consecutive meetings of the Committee without any sufficient cause or reasons.

  4. Any vacancy in the membership caused by any reason mentioned in ii and iii above shall be filled by the government for the unexpired portion of the two year term.

  5. Traveling and daily allowance shall be payable to the non-official members of the Committee at the highest rate admissible to the government servants of Group ‘A’ under the rules and orders made by the central government and for the time being in force. Provided that the payment of traveling allowance and daily allowance to a member who is a Member of the Parliament or a Member of a state Legislature shall be regulated in accordance with the Salary, Allowances and Pension of Members of Parliament Act, 1954 or the respective provisions of law pertaining to the member of the concerned state Legislature.

 

 

 

 

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