PUBLIC DEPARTMENT - Special-A - Appointment

**Executive Summary** This document is an excerpt from the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette, published on October 5, 2016. It contains notifications regarding appointments, magisterial powers, and notices of extraordinary issues published during the week ending September 24, 2016. It also indicates parts and sections of the Gazette not published during that week. **Key Points / Main Content** * **Extraordinary Issues Published:** Notifications published in extraordinary issues of the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette during the week ending September 24, 2016, include: * **Town Panchayats:** Determination of wards for reservation to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Women (Director of Town Panchayats). * **Elections:** Conduct of account of election expenses for Panchayats, Town Panchayats, Third Grade Municipalities, Municipalities, and Corporations (Tamil Nadu State Election Commission). * **Amendments to Election Rules:** Amendments to the Tamil Nadu Panchayats (Elections) Rules, 1995 (Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Department). * **Local Body Elections:** List of recognized and unregistered political parties and their symbols (Tamil Nadu State Election Commission). * **Keezhveeranam Panchayat:** Notification regarding the removal of the president of the Keezhveeranam Panchayat Council, Alangulam Panchayat Union, Tirunelveli District (District Collector and Inspector of Panchayats, Tirunelveli District). * **Reservation of Wards:** Notification of reservation of wards to Scheduled Caste (General), Scheduled Caste (Women) and Women (General) (Chennai City Municipal Corporation). * **Right to Information:** Elections Tamil Nadu State Election Commission Local Body Elections Right to Information of Electors - Affidavit Notification - Issued (Tamil Nadu State Election Commission). * **Safeguards Against Personation:** Elections - Elections to Urban and Rural Local Bodies - Safeguards against Personation Marking Indelible Ink - Direction - Issued Notification of (Tamil Nadu State Election Commission). * **Local Body Elections:** TNSEC Concession to Political Parties certain Amendments to the Tamil Nadu Local Bodies Election Symbols (Reservation and Allotment) Order, 2016-Issued (Tamil Nadu State Election Commission). * **Parts and Sections Not Published:** The following parts and sections of the Gazette were not published during the week: * Part III-Section 2 * Part IV-Sections 1, 2, 3 and 4 * Part V-Sections 1, 2, 3 and 4 **Impact Analysis** **Director of Town Panchayats** * **Impact:** Responsible for implementing the ward determination for reservation in Town Panchayats. * **Action Required:** Implement the determination of wards for the reservation of seats for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Women in Town Panchayats. **Tamil Nadu State Election Commission** * **Impact:** Responsible for conducting elections, providing election information, and ensuring safeguards against personation in urban and rural local body elections. * **Action Required:** Take action to account for election expenses, provide electors with the right to information, ensure safeguards against personation, and issue amendments to the Tamil Nadu Local Bodies Election Symbols (Reservation and Allotment) Order, 2016. **Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Department** * **Impact:** Responsible for amending the Tamil Nadu Panchayats (Elections) Rules, 1995. * **Action Required:** Implement the amendments to the Tamil Nadu Panchayats (Elections) Rules, 1995. **District Collector and Inspector of Panchayats, Tirunelveli District** * **Impact:** Responsible for the removal of the president of the Keezhveeranam Panchayat Council, Alangulam Panchayat Union, Tirunelveli District. * **Action Required:** Implement the order regarding the removal of the president of the Keezhveeranam Panchayat Council. **Chennai City Municipal Corporation** * **Impact:** Responsible for implementing the reservation of wards in the Chennai Municipal Corporation. * **Action Required:** Implement the notification of reservation of wards to Scheduled Caste (General), Scheduled Caste (Women) and Women (General). **Political Parties** * **Impact:** Governed by regulations regarding election symbols. * **Action Required:** Adapt operations in accordance with TNSEC amendments to the Tamil Nadu Local Bodies Election Symbols (Reservation and Allotment) Order, 2016. **Electors** * **Impact:** Entitled to the right to information and protection against personation. * **Action Required:** Provide affidavit information as required; abide by directions of the Election Commission to prevent personation.

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