Meghalaya (Taking over of District Council Lower Primary Schools) Act, 1993
No: 6 Dated: Jun, 02 1994
THE MEGHALAYA (TAKING OVER OF DISTRICT COUNCIL LOWER PRIMARY SCHOOLS) ACT, 1993
ACT 6 OF 1994
An Act To provide for the taking over of Primary Schools of the District Councils in Meghalaya by the State Government and for matters connected therewith.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Meghalaya in the Forty-fourth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-
1. Short title and commencement:-(1) This Act may be called the Meghalaya (Taking over of District Council Lower Primary Schools) Act, 1993
(2) It shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint and different dates may be appointed for different autonomous district.
2. Definition:- In this Act, unl ess there i s anything repugnant to the context:-
(a) “Act” means the Meghalaya (Taking over of District Council Lower Primary Schools) Act 1993
(b) “appointed day” means the date appointed by the State Government under sub-section (2) of section 1;
(c) “autonomous district” means the autonomous district, as the case may be of Khasi Hills, Garo Hills or Jaintia Hills;
(d) “cut-off-date” means the cut-off d ate referred to in section 4;
(e) “DCLP School” means any Lower P rimary School including a Junior Basic School managed by the District Council;
(f) “District Council” means a District Council in the State of Meghalaya c onstituted under the Sixth Schedule to the Constitution;
(g) “section” means a section of the Act;
(h) “State Government” means the Government of the State of Meghalaya; and
(i) “taking over” means the taking over of DCLP Schools by the State Government as referred to in section 3;
3. Taking over of DCLP Schools:- (1) On and from the appointed day all DCLP Schools in the autonomous districts shall stand taken over by and vest in the State Government.
(2) On the taking-over of the schools under sub-section (1) the liability on account of-
(a) Salary and allowances, including any arrear thereof, of a teacher who immediately before the twentieth day of December, 1993 is a teacher of such school shall pass on the State Government; and
(b) Gratuity and pensionery benefits of a DCLP school teacher, including any arrear thereof, for any period commencing from the cut-date shall be borne by the State Government.
(3) The provisions of clauses (a) and (b) of sub-section (2) shall also apply to DCLP school teacher who is deputed or transferred by the State Government to serve in a school not being a DCLP school.