Friday, December 23, 2011

LOKPAL BILL : SOME HIGHLIGHTS : FOR THE ATTENTION OF SOCIETIES / AOP : REGISTERED OR NOT :

THE LOKPAL BILL, 2011

CHAPTER VI, Clause : 
( f ) any person who is or has been a director, manager, secretary or other officer of every other society or association of persons or trust ( whether registered under any law for the time being in force or not ) wholly or partly financed or aided by the Government and the annual income of which exceeds such amount as the Central Government may by notification specify;

( g ) any person who is or has been a director, manager, secretary or other officer of every other society or association of persons or trust ( whether registered under any law for the time being in force or not ) in receipt of any donation from the public and the annual income of which exceeds such amount as the Central Government may by notification specify;

Provided that nothing in this section shall apply in relation to the Prime Minister, in whatever capacity he may be holding an office as a public functionary;

Provided further that any person referred to in this clause shall be deemed to be a public servant under clause ( c ) of section 2 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 and the provisions of that Act shall apply accordingly;

Provided also that nothing in clause ( e ) and ( f ) and this clause shall apply to any society or association of persons or trust constituted for religious purposes.

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It simply means that if you form a Society / AOP  registered or not, with annual income to be notified by central govt., you will be deemed to be a Public servant under the Prevention of Corruption Act. But the Societies / AOP for religious purposes are not included in it ( But can not understand why Mr Arvind Kejriwal has referred in Media that all the religious societies / AOP of various Mandir, gurudwara, Church, Mosques are included under this section. Will read it again as E & O E ). Still going through the contents of The Lokpal Bill, 2011 & will revert soon with more details. with best regards.

B S Vohra 

1 comment:

  1. Respected sir, when our respected elected members including bjp and congress are caught on camera in string operation then what u can say about class iii employees.
    these honourable councillors must explain their conduct and apologies to the electorates.
    our blog must have courage to name these councillors and to find out truth.
    also respectfully i state that objective of front is not to make money or to glorify any individual.
    Unfortunately both these tendencies are becoming visible.
    kk ghei

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