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General Powers of Zilla Panchayat:
The Zilla Panchayat is empowered to do all acts necessary for or incidental to the carrying out
all its functions as are assigned under the Goa Panchayat Raj Act, 1994.
The Zilla Panchayat may therefore:
1) Incur expenditure on education or medical relief outside its jurisdiction.
2) provide for carrying out any work or measure likely to promote the health, safety,
education, comfort, convenience or social or economic or cultural well being of the
inhabitants of the district.
3) contribute to associations of all India, State of Interstate level, concerned with the
promotions of local Government and to exhibitions, seminars and conferences within
the district related to the activities of the panchayat and the Zilla Panchayat.
4) render financial or other assistance to any person for carrying on in the district any such
activity which is related to any of the functions of the said bodies.
2) Meetings of the Zilla Panchayat:
i. A Zilla Panchayat shall hold a meeting for transaction of business (ordinary meeting)
at least once in two months. The meeting shall generally be held at the Zilla
Panchayat office.
ii. The Adhyaksha may, whenever he/she thinks fit, and shall, upon the written request
of not less than 1/3
rd
of the total members and on a date within 15 days from the
receipt of such request, call a special meeting. If the Adhyaksha fails to call a special
meeting, the Upadhyaksha or 1/3
rd
of the total number of members of the Zilla
Panchayat may call the special meeting.
iii. The Chief Executive Officer of the Zilla Panchayat shall take such action as
necessary to give notice to the members and to convene the meetings as and when
required.
iv. Ten clear days’ notice for an ordinary meeting and seven clear days’ notice for a
special meeting is required to be given.
v. No meeting shall be held on any day observed as public holidays.
vi. The notice of the meeting shall specify the place and the time at which such meeting
is to be held and the business to be transacted thereat.
vii. Every meeting shall be open to public unless the presiding authority considers that
any enquiry or deliberation pending before the Zilla Panchayat should be held in
camera.
viii. Every meeting shall be presided over by the Adhyaksha or if he/she is absent, by the
Upadhyaksha and if both are absent the members present shall elect one from
amongst them to preside.
ix. All questions shall unless otherwise specially provided, be decided by a majority of
votes of the members present and voting. The Presiding member unless he/she
refrains from voting shall give vote before declaring the number of votes for and
against a question and in case of equality of votes, he/she may give his/her casting
vote.
x. No proposition shall be discussed at any ordinary meeting unless it has been entered
in the notice convening such meeting or in the case of a special meeting, in the
written request for such meeting.