{"id":70531,"date":"2019-09-17T06:54:03","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T06:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=70531"},"modified":"2019-09-17T06:54:06","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T06:54:06","slug":"punjab-cabinet-approves-raising-sc-commission-chairperson-age-limit-to-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/punjab-cabinet-approves-raising-sc-commission-chairperson-age-limit-to-72\/","title":{"rendered":"PUNJAB CABINET APPROVES RAISING SC COMMISSION CHAIRPERSON AGE LIMIT TO 72"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chandigarh<br> The Council of Ministers on Monday approved raising of the age limit for Chairperson of Punjab State Commission for Scheduled Castes Act, 2004, from 70 to 72 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An Ordinance will be brought to amend Section 4 (1) of the Punjab State Commission for Scheduled Castes Act, 2004 to bring the change into effect, said an official spokesperson after the Cabinet meeting, chaired by Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At present, the term of the Chairperson\u2019s office is six years or age of seventy years, whichever is earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This decision will help in getting more experienced persons for the post, thus ensuring effective implementation of laws meant to protect and safeguard the interests of the state\u2019s SC communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Punjab State Commission for Scheduled Castes was constituted under the \u2018The Punjab State Scheduled Castes Commission Act, 2004\u2019. Regarding the appointment of Chairperson of the Commission, Section 3 (2) (a) of the Act-2004 provides; \u2018a chairperson, who shall be an eminent person belonging to Scheduled Castes or a retired officer of the Government of State of Punjab belonging to the Scheduled Castes not below the rank of Principal Secretary, to be appointed by the Government.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chandigarh The Council of Ministers on Monday approved raising of the age limit for Chairperson of Punjab State Commission for Scheduled Castes Act, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[314,315],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-punjab","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70533,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70531\/revisions\/70533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}