Srinagar: The District Development Councils in Jammu and Kashmir will have standing committees on the lines of House committees of Assemblies of the States & Union Territories.
The law governing constitution and functioning of DDCs in the Union Territory mandate constitution of five standing committees in each Council to deal with different development matters.
Each DDC will have standing committees for Finance, Development, Public works, Health and Welfare to deal with different subject matters.
As already reported by Precious Kashmir, Jammu & Kashmir has constituted DDCs after elections were held in all 20 districts of the UT to elect their chairpersons and vice-chairpersons. These standing committees would be set-up soon in every DDC.
Under the law, the committee for finance shall deal with the subjects like finance, accounts, audit, budget, general administration and subjects not allowed to other standing committees.
The committee for Development is empowered to deal with the subjects like development planning, socio-economic planning, agriculture, soil conservation, animal husbandry, minor irrigation, fisheries, small scale industry, etc. and the panel for Public Works has been authorized to deal with the subjects like public works, housing, spatial planning and environment.
According to the law, the standing committee for Health and Education shall deal with subjects’ like public health and education and the panel for Welfare shall deal with subjects like social welfare, development of women and children and development of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.
These panels have also been empowered to perform such other powers and functions of the Council as may be entrusted to it by the Council in addition to the powers and duties conferred on them by the law and rules.
As per the procedure governing their membership, each standing committee shall consist of such number of members, including its chairperson as decided by the District Development Council, so that all other elected members except the chairperson and vice-chairperson shall be elected as a member in any of the standing committee.
The law states that every resolution passed by the standing committee shall be placed before the Council in its next meeting and the Council shall have power to modify such resolution if considered necessary.
