Section 40 · Standing Committees

(1) The Corporation shall have the following standing committees, namely :––

(a) ¹[Executive Committee] ;

(b) Finance and Planning Committee ;

(c) Public Health and Sanitation Committee ; ²[x x x x]

(d) Social Justice Committee ³[;]

⁴[(e) Housing for All Committee ;

(f) Skill Up-gradation and Self-Employment Committee ; and

(g) Swacch Bharat Committee.]

(2) Each standing committee shall consist of not less than five and not more than nine Councillors including the Mayor or the Deputy Mayor, as the case may be, elected by the Councillors of the Municipal Corporation from amongst the elected Councillors :

Provided that Social Justice Committee shall include at least one member who may be a woman or a member of a Scheduled Caste or of a Scheduled Tribe ⁵[:]

⁶[Provided further that the Executive Committee shall consist of the Mayor, who shall be its Chairman, a member representing largest opposition group or party in the Corporation, four members to be elected by the elected members of the Corporation and the Commissioner who shall be its ex-officio Secretary.]

⁷[(3) The Executive Committee shall perform functions relating to the establishment matters, communications, construction of roads and buildings, housing, relief against natural calamities and all residuary matters and shall be empowered to––

(i) make recommendations on all policy matters for discussion and decision by the General Council ;

(ii) approve the budget ;

(iii) approve all development plans, annual action plans and works plans ;

(iv) approve contracts above rupees one crore or such higher amount as the corporation may fix ; and

(v) make recommendations to the General Council about staffing pattern in the Corporation and all other service matters.” ;]

(4) The Finance and Planning Committee shall perform the functions relating to the finances of the Corporation, preparation of budget, scrutinising proposals for increase of revenue including taxes, examination of receipts and expenditure statement, sales and leases of Corporation properties, recovery of loans, examinations of schedule of rates, consideration of all proposals affecting the finance of the Corporation and any other functions relating to the development of the municipal area.

(5) The Public Health and Sanitation Committee shall perform functions relating to the health, sanitation, water supply, drainage and sewage disposal.

(6) The Social Justice Committee shall perform functions relating to––

(a) promotion of education, economic, social, cultural and other interests of the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Backward Classes, and weaker sections of the society ;

(b) protection from social injustice and all other forms of exploitation ;

(c) amelioration of the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Backward Classes including other weaker sections of the society ;

(d) securing social justice to the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, women and other weaker sections of the society.

⁸[(6A) The Housing for All Committee shall perform functions related to monitoring and review of progress under the Prime Minister Awas Yojana.

(6B) The Skill Up-gradation and Self Employment Committee shall perform functions related to monitoring and review of progress under the National Urban Livelihood Mission.

(6C) The Swacch Bharat Committee shall perform functions related to monitoring and review of progress under the Swacch Bharat Mission.]

⁹[(7) The Mayor shall be the ex-officio member and also the Chairman of the Executive Committee and the Finance and Planning Committee and the Deputy Mayor shall be the ex-officio member and also the Chairman of the Housing for All Committee and Skill Up-gradation and Self Employment Committee.]

(8) The members of the other Committees shall elect its Chairman from amongst themselves.

(9) No member of the Corporation shall be eligible to serve on more than two standing committees at a time.

(10) A standing Committee may, with the approval of the Corporation, coopt not more than two persons who are not Councillors of the Corporation but who in the opinion of the Corporation possess special qualifications for serving on such committee :

Provided that such co-opted members shall not be deemed to be Councillors of the Corporation and shall have no right to vote in any capacity whatsoever but shall be entitled to participate in all proceedings of the committee in an advisory capacity.

(11) The Chairman of every committee shall in respect of the work of the committee, be entitled to call for any information, return, statement, account or report from the office of the Corporation and to enter on and inspect any immovable property of the Corporation or work in progress connected with the work of the Committee.

(12) Each committee shall be entitled to attendance as its meetings of any officer of the Municipal Corporation who is connected with the work of the committee. The Commissioner shall under the instructions of the committee, issue notices and secure the attendance of the officer.

(13) The Corporation may frame regulations relating to election of members of the Standing Committees, conduct of business therein, and all other matters relating thereto.

(14) The Commissioner, or the Joint/Assistant Commissioner, appointed under section 46, shall be the ex-officio Member-Secretary of the Standing Committee.