Ministry of Textiles - The Central Silk Board Rules, 1955

**ca_news** · 17-05-2011, 06:16 PM

The Central Silk Board Rules, 1955

Rule no.- 21.

Proceedings of the meetings:-

(1) The minutes of the meetings of the Board or of the Standing Committee shall be kept in separate books (hereinafter referred to as Minutes Book), and shall be signed by the Chairperson or the Vice-Chairperson or the member who presided at the meeting. Copies of such minutes showing, inter-alia, the names of the members present at the meeting shall be forwarded to each member of the Board and to the Central Government as soon as possible after every meeting.

(2) The minutes of each meeting shall be placed before the next meeting for confirmation.

**ca_news** · 17-05-2011, 06:20 PM

The Central Silk Board Rules, 1955

Rule no.- 22.

Powers of the Board:-

(1) The Board may, by a resolution, sanction any expenditure or authorise making of a contract involving expenditure from the funds placed at its disposal by the Central Government in performance of its functions under the Act;

Provided that the Board shall not sanction any expenditure or authorise making of a contract involving expenditure in excess of the budget allotment;

1[Provided further that the Board shall not enter into any contract involving an expenditure in excess of Rs.10.00 lakhs (other than entrusted to Government owned agencies or award of Annual Maintenance Contracts for equipments when the Board shall have full powers) without the prior sanction of the Central Government.]

(1)(A) The Board may, by resolution, appoint any person or persons for such period and on such terms and conditions as it may think fit, for the purpose of collecting information or statistics or otherwise assisting the Board in carrying out its duties and functions under the Act or these rules.

(B) The Board may, by order, require any person engaged in the production, supply and distribution of, or trade and commerce in silk cocoon, raw silk, silkwaste, or any product of silk (i.e., yarn, sewing thread, silk woven materials, silk hosiery and garments made from silk fabrics) ; to maintain and produce for inspection such books, accounts and records relating to their business and to furnish such information relating thereto, as may be specified therein.

(2) The Board may incur expenditure outside India upto a maximum of Rs.5,000/- on each individual item;

Provided that this power of the Board shall not be delegated to the Standing Committee, or the Chairperson, or the Vice-Chairperson, or any member of the Board nominated under Clause (b) of sub-section (3) of Section 4 of the Act.

2[(3) Except as provided in the proviso to sub-rule (2) above the Board may delegate such powers as it may deem fit to the Chairperson, Vice- Chairperson and members of the Board nominated under clause (b) of the subsection (3) of section 4 of the Act, Standing Committee, Member Secretary or any Officer of the Board.]

Notes -

1 Substituted by S.O.1059 dated 13.4.1998.

2 Substituted by ibid.

**ca_news** · 17-05-2011, 06:22 PM

The Central Silk Board Rules, 1955

Rule no.- 23

Powers of the Chairperson:-

(1) The Chairperson may sanction an expenditure not exceeding 1[Rs.50,000/-] for any item of expenditure covered by budget estimates.

(2) The Chairperson may write off as irrecoverable losses not exceeding 1[Rs.1,000/-] in a single case.

Note -

1 Substituted by GSR-141 dated 24.1.1985.

**ca_news** · 17-05-2011, 06:25 PM

The Central Silk Board Rules, 1955

Rule no.- 24.

Powers and duties of the Vice-Chairperson :-

The powers and duties of the Vice-Chairperson shall be :-

(i) to preside over the meetings of the Board or of the Standing Committee in the absence of the Chairperson;

(ii) to enter into contracts on behalf of the Board in accordance with the Act or the rules made there under or the general or special instruments of the Board or the Standing Committee or the Chairperson;

(iii) to exercise such other powers and to perform such other duties as the Chairperson may deem fit to delegate to him.

**ca_news** · 17-05-2011, 06:32 PM

The Central Silk Board Rules, 1955

Rule no.- 25.

Powers and duties of the Standing Committee:- The Standing Committee shall exercise such powers and perform such duties as the Board may delegate to the Committee;

Provided that such powers shall be exercised and duties performed in accordance with the directions or limitations, if any as may be given or imposed through any resolution of the Board;

Provided further that all decisions of the Standing Committee shall be subject to the control of the Board which may cancel, suspend, or modify as it thinks fit, any such decision.

**ca_news** · 17-05-2011, 06:35 PM

The Central Silk Board Rules, 1955

Rule no.- 26.

Powers and duties of the Secretary:- The Secretary will be the principal executive officer of the Board and will work under the general control of the Chairperson or the member of the Board referred in sub-rule (3) of rule 22 and of the Board. His powers and duties shall be :-

(1) to implement all decisions taken by the Board or the Standing Committee;
(2) to co-ordinate and supervise the work of other officers and establishments of the Board;
(3) to convene under the directions of the Chairperson or the Vice- Chairperson meetings of the Board and of the Standing Committee;
(4) to maintain the Minutes book;
(5) to furnish to the Central Government all reports and Returns and other necessary documents required by the Act or the Rules;
(6) to administer the Provident Fund of the Board;
(7) to prepare the budget estimates of the Board;
(8) to sanction re-appropriation of grants under such powers as may be delegated by the Standing Committee and within such limits as may be prescribed by the Standing Committee;
(9) to undertake such other duties and to exercise such other powers as may, from time to time, be entrusted or delegated to him by the Board or the Chairperson.

**ca_news** · 18-05-2011, 12:15 PM

The Central Silk Board Rules, 1955

Rule no.- 27

Other officers of the Board:- The Board may have such other staff as it may consider necessary and the duties of the staff shall be as prescribed by the Board.

**ca_news** · 18-05-2011, 12:24 PM

The Central Silk Board Rules, 1955

Rule no.- 28.

Salaries, allowances and conditions of service of officers and establishments of the Board:-

(1) Save as provided in Section 7 of the Act , all appointments to posts of officers and establishments in the service of the Board shall be made by the Board:-

Provided that __

(i) No post of which the maximum salary exceeds 1[Rs.13,500/- per mensem or such sum in the equivalent grade as may be substituted or revised from time to time] shall be created or filled without the previous sanction of the Central Government.

(ii) the scale of pay and dearness allowance, travelling allowance and any other allowances applicable to the officers and establishments in the service of the Board shall be the same as those prescribed by the Central Government for officers of similar status save in the case of officers and specialists
appointed on contract. The Board may require at its discretion, security from such of its employees and for such amounts as it thinks fit;

(iii) Officers or specialists appointed on contract shall be entitled to leave and leave salary under the terms which may, from time to time, be made applicable to the Central Government servants on contract on similar salaries. Such officers shall be entitled to travelling allowance, dearness allowance or any other allowances as, may from time to time, be provided for officers drawing similar salaries under the Central Government.

(2) (a) The Fundamental Rules and the Supplementary Rules of the Government of India shall apply to the grant of leave to officers and establishments in the service of the Board. Rule 9 of the Revised Leave Rules, 1933 shall apply to such members of the staff of the Board as remain in its service for a period exceeding one year and rule 10 shall be applicable to such members of the staff as remain in service for a period not exceeding one year.

Explanation: The powers vested under the Rules referred to above in the President shall be exercised by the Chairperson and those of the Heads of Department by the Secretary.

(i) The Central Civil Services (Conduct) Rules, 1955, and the Central Civil Services (Temporary Services) Rules, 1965 as amended from time to time shall apply in relation to the employees of the Board, as they apply in relation to the employees of the Central Government.

(b) The Board may, by resolution, allow the employees of the Board :-

(i) advance of pay on the eve of important festivals.

(ii) Advance for the purchase of conveyance on the same terms and conditions as govern the grant of such advances to Central Government servants.

(iii) Advance for construction or purchase of a house, including purchase of land, or extension of an existing house on the same terms and conditions as govern the grant of such advance to Central Government servants, subject to availability of funds in the appropriate head in the budget.

(iv) advance for purchase of warm clothing on the same terms and conditions as govern the grant of such advances to Central Government servants.

(v) Such other advances sanctioned by the Central Government from time to time for its employees, on the same terms and conditions as govern the grant of such advances to such employees.

(3) 2[The Board may grant study leave to its employees in order to enable them to undertake study or research, or to obtain specialised training in scientific, technical or economic subjects connected with the silk industry. The Central Civil Services (Leave) Rules, 1972 as amended from time to time shall apply to the grant of study leave to the employees of the Board as they apply in relation to the employees of Central Government.]

(4) (i) The Board shall establish and maintain a Contributory Provident Fund for the benefit of its employees and require them to subscribe to the Fund. Any employee of the Board on deputation to the Board who is also a Government servant shall continue to be governed by the conditions of service in regard to pension etc, which apply to him as a Government servant.

(ii) The Provident Fund shall be administered by the Secretary or any other officer authorised by the Chairperson in this behalf.

(5) 3[The Secretary may grant leave of any kind due and admissible excepting study leave, to any officer or members of the staff including the Directors working in the Research Stations or the Service Stations as well as the Board’s Secretariat. Director or Deputy Director or Joint Secretary or Deputy Secretary holding independent charge of an Institute or an office as the case may be, may grant leave of any kind due and admissible, excepting study leave to any officer or member of the staff working under them.]

Notes -

1 Substituted by GSR No.420 dated.30.11.2004.

2 Substituted by GSR-29 dated 23.12.1992.

3 Substituted by GSR-141 dated 24.1.1985 further substituted by corrigendum vide GSR- 194 dated 18.2.1985.

**ca_news** · 18-05-2011, 12:31 PM

The Central Silk Board Rules, 1955

Rule no.- 28A.

Pension-cum-gratuity benefits to the employees of the Board:-

Every employee of the Board, other than an employee who is on deputation to the Board, shall be entitled to pension, and death-cum-retirement gratuity (including family pension, extraordinary pension, and commutation pension) at such rates and under such conditions as are prescribed in the Liberalised Pension Rules by the Central Government for its employees of the corresponding grades;

Provided that any such employee who was in the service of the Board before the 1st April 1966, and is continuing in such service on the 31st December, 1966, may within three months from the date last mentioned, opt, in writing, for the benefits of the Central Silk Board Contributory Provident Fund Rules, in which case nothing in this rule shall apply to such employees;

Provided further that where the Contributory Provident Fund accounts of any person who was in the service of the Board on the 1st April 1966, and who ceased to be in such service after that date but before the 31st December, 1966, due to retirement on superannuation or death, have not been settled before the date last mentioned, then, such person shall be deemed to have opted to be governed by this rule.

Explanation: In this rule, “Liberalised Pension Rules” means the Liberalised Pension Rules of the Central Government, for the time being in force, regarding the grant of pension and gratuity to its employees.

**ca_news** · 18-05-2011, 12:34 PM

The Central Silk Board Rules, 1955

Rule no.- 29.

Delegation of Powers by the Board:- (I) The Board may, by resolution, delegate to the Chairperson or the Vice-Chairperson or the members of the Board referred to in sub-rule(3) of rule 22 or the Vice-Chairperson or any officer of the Board, such of its powers under rule 28 as it deems fit.

2[(1A) All delegation of powers under the sub-rule (1) shall be intimated to the Central Government.]

(2) The authority empowered by the Board to appoint an officer or a member of the establishment in its service shall be competent to dismiss suspend, promote, or degrade such officer or members of the establishment. The procedure to be adopted in all cases of disciplinary action shall be governed by rules which obtain in Central Government offices.

(3) The powers delegated by the Board under the rules shall be exercised subject to the control of the Board.

Note -

2 Inserted by GSR-141 dated 24.1.1985.

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