Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 150
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 151
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Warning (512): Unable to emit headers. Headers sent in file=/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php line=853 [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 48]
Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 148]
Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 181]
LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Want to contest panchayat polls in Bihar? First, install a toilet at your home -Madan Kumar

Want to contest panchayat polls in Bihar? First, install a toilet at your home -Madan Kumar

Share this article Share this article
published Published on Aug 6, 2015   modified Modified on Aug 6, 2015
-The Times of India

PATNA:
If you want to become Mukhiya, Pramukh, district board chairperson or even a ward member of your gram-panchayat by contesting panchayat polls in Bihar, you must have to construct a toilet at your individual home.

Bihar Legislative Assembly on Wednesday passed a legislation- the Bihar Panchayat Raj (Amendment) Bill, 2015, bringing some new provisions including making it mandatory for candidates contesting all level of panchayat raj elections to have toilets at their individual home by January 31, 2016.

"The candidates willing to contest panchayat elections will have to give an affidavit that he/ she have toilets at his/ her individual homes, while filing nominations for the rural polls," Bihar's Panchayati Raj minister Vinod Prasad Yadav, who introduced the Bill in the assembly, told TOI. Yadav said, the 'toilet at home' provision was incorporated in the Bill to ensure proper sanitation in the rural areas. "It has been noticed that people in villages, including women, have to go in open areas to relieve themselves due to lack of toilets at their home. It creates to unhygienic atmosphere in villages," he said.

"By introducing the 'toilet at home' provision, Bihar in fact has tried to imitate Gujarat which introduced similar provisions on October 1, 2014, a day before the nation-wide launch of 'Swachh Bharat Abhiyan' by Prime Minister Narendra Modi," said a senior government official.

However, Bihar's minister Yadav said he was not aware whether Gujarat had already made the toilet at home' provision mandatory for panchayat elections candidates.

Another important amendment in the Bihar Panchayat Raj Act will put a check on frequent move of 'no-confidence proposals' against the elected representatives of the three-tier Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs). "As per the existing provisions, no-confidence proposals can be brought against elected representatives like Mukhiya, Pramukh or district boar chairpersons after two years of their election and against after a gap of one year. In such situation, some elected persons was exposed to face three np-confidence motion during his/ her five years tenure. But henceforth, only one 'no-confidence' proposal can be brought against any elected persons during his five year tenure, that too only after two years of his/ her elections," the minister said.

The assembly also passed two other bills - Bihar State Universities (Amendment) Bill, 2015 and Aryabhatta Knowledge University (AKU) Bill, 2015- during the post-lunch session, which was marred by uproar created by opposition BJP members after Speaker Uday Narayan Choudhary rejected their demand for an adjournment motion to discuss the alleged medical scam to the tune of over Rs 100 crore in Bihar.

As per amendment in the Bihar State Universities Act, there would be a "selection committee" in each affiliated degree college to review appointment of all those teachers who were recruited before April 19, 2007, without the recommendation of the Bihar College Service Commission. The amendment in the AKU Act suggest that henceforth the appointment of vice-chancellor in the AKU would be done (by the chancellor) on the basis "effective advise" from the state government.


The Times of India, 5 August, 2015, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/Want-to-contest-panchayat-polls-in-Bihar-First-install-a-toilet-at-your-home/articleshow/48363137.cms?


Related Articles

 

Write Comments

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

*

Video Archives

Archives

share on Facebook
Twitter
RSS
Feedback
Read Later

Contact Form

Please enter security code
      Close