Patna: The State Government has decided to issue regulations next week, change the relevant part of Bihar Municipality Act, 2007 to facilitate the direct election of the mayor and deputy mayor of city companies and their heads and deputies in other urban local agencies (ULBs), said source.
“The Country Cabinet approved the proposal last Wednesday and the governor had also given its approval.
Therefore, legal cells have begun the process of providing forms of correct ordinances.
In all probabilities, regulations will be issued next week,” the top source said in urban development and housing department.
This ordinance is intended to change the two articles from existing ACT – Article 23 (1) and Article 25 – and how to pave to fill the headboards and deputy head ULBs through direct election.
It is also in practice in other countries such as Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, UP and Uttarakhand.
The election of ULB will not be held on the party lane.
Amendments to both articles will eliminate with unethical normative practices using money and other beneficial feeds into the pool in the number of environmental councils that are sufficient by one or other prospective observers.
Furthermore, in the changed situation, there are no members of a single environmental council, or a group of those formed strangely, will be able to arbitrarily remove the head and deputy head of the elected ULB.
Previously, the elected board member from various ULB was used to elect the head and deputy head and mayor and deputy mayor in the case of the Municipal Corporation.
Based on Article 25, a group consisting of a third of the total number of board members in ULB used to serve notifications to arbitrarily seek the elimination of the ULB head in question.