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ELE.06   ---   Improving citizens' control over State owned Transmission Company





 
Section   1   :   Preamble
  The Act is to create an administrative procedure, using which, citizens can improve control over state-owned transmission company.

Section   2   : Creating state-owned transmission company
2.1 The State Govt may create a company to transmit electricity. The State Govt can provide funds to the transmission company ONLY by a wealth tax and no other means.

Section   3   : Appointments of senior officers and their main powers
3.1 [Person responsible for this procedure : CM] The CM will appoint the Chairman of State-owned transmission company.

Section   4   : Procedures for citizens to replace the Chairman
4.1 [Person responsible for this procedure: Registrar] A citizen can present his ID and specify the serial numbers of (at most 5) candidates he approves for the position of the Chairman of the State-owned transmission company. The clerk will enter the requests in the systems and give the receipts to the citizen. The citizen may change his choices any day any month. The clerk may charge a fee of Rs 2 to Rs 5 to the citizen. Further, the citizen can withdraw his approvals any day. There will be no fee from withdrawing the approvals.
4.2 [Person responsible for this procedure : CM] If any candidate is approved by highest number of citizen-voters and over 25% of ALL citizen-voters of the State, and his approval is 1% more than existing Chairman, then CM will appoint him as new chairman within 2 days.
4.3 [Person responsible for this procedure : Registrar ; Purpose:] Word "citizen" in the context of Approval, means citizen above 18 and registered voter.

Section   5   : Review by Grand Jurors and Jurors on disputes related to transmission

The citizens can expel/fine any employee of the state-owned transmission company using the procedures listed in "Jury System over State Govt Staff" Act. (*)

Section   6   : Other Details
6.1 If the officer does not execute a procedure or ignores an instruction stated in this Resolution/Act, a citizen can file a complaint before the Grand Jurors. In case there are is no Grand Jury, the citizens can appeal to the Mayor to setup a Grand Jury. But under this law, a citizen cannot complaint before Mayor, Corporators, CM, MLAs, CM, or MPs.
6.2 The Jurors will judge this Act, guidelines, intentions as well as the facts related to the case


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(*) -- To see the text of proposed "Jury Trial over State Govt Staff" Act, please click here.