{"id":301691,"date":"2018-08-21T08:31:51","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T08:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=301691"},"modified":"2018-08-21T08:48:25","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T08:48:25","slug":"punjab-cabinet-paves-the-way-for-mlas-to-hold-office-of-profit-raju-william","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/punjab-cabinet-paves-the-way-for-mlas-to-hold-office-of-profit-raju-william\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab Cabinet paves the way for MLAs to hold \u2018Office of Profit\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The Punjab Cabinet led by Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Tuesday paved the way for the enactment of the law to enable MLAs to hold several new categories of `Office of Profit.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

“The Punjab State Legislature (Prevention of Disqualification) (Amendment) Bill, 2018” will be tabled in the forthcoming session of Punjab Vidhan Sabha following the Cabinet nod to the new legislation.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to an official spokesperson, with the amendments proposed in the Bill, various categories of office of profit will be added to the current list of positions\/offices which MLAs can hold without inviting disqualification.<\/span><\/p>\n

The amendments, aimed at addressing the complexities of modern day governance, include incorporation of a new Section 1A to provide for the definitions of “compensatory allowance”, “statutory body” and “non-statutory body”. As per Section 1(A), “compensatory allowance” would mean any sum of money payable to the holder of an office by way of daily allowance, any conveyance allowance, house-rent allowance or travelling allowance for the purpose of enabling him to recoup any expenditure incurred by him in performing the functions of that office.<\/span><\/p>\n

Insertions and additions have also been made to the categories of offices of profit under Section 2 of the said Act under the Bill.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Section 2 of the Act includes any office held by a minister (including the chief minister), minister of state or deputy minister, office of chairman, vice chairman, deputy chairman, state planning board, office of (each leader and each deputy leader) a recognised party and a recognised group in the Vidhan Sabha, office of chief whip, deputy chief whip or whip in the Assembly.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Bill amends Section 2 to include the office of chairman or member of a committee, set up temporarily for the purpose of advising the government or any authority on a matter of public importance or for making an inquiry if the holder of such office is not entitled to any remuneration other than compensatory allowance.<\/span><\/p>\n

This also include the office of chairman, director or member of any statutory or non-statutory body, if the holder of such office is not entitled to any remuneration other than compensatory allowance.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Punjab Cabinet led by Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Tuesday paved the way for the enactment of the law to enable MLAs to hold several new categories of `Office of Profit.\u2019 “The Punjab State Legislature (Prevention of Disqualification) (Amendment) Bill, 2018” will be tabled in the forthcoming session of Punjab Vidhan Sabha following […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":301692,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2913,2014],"tags":[4317,309,279,4318,1510],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301691"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301693,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301691\/revisions\/301693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}