Reg. No. GR/RNP/GOA/32 RNI No. GOAENG/2002/6410 Panaji, 23rd October, 2008 (Kartika 1, 1930) SERIES I No. 30 INDEX Department Notification/Order Subject Pages 1. Civil Supplies & Consumer Nos. DCS/S-2/FPS-Guidelines/08 Revised Guidelines for opening Fair Price Shops 1021 Affairs Director & ex officio Jt. Secretary 2. Elections Direction No. 5-4-2008/ELECT/ Direction for languages of Electoral Roll 1023 (Office of the Chief Electoral /1476 Officer) Chief Electoral Officer 3. Law & Judiciary 2-5(4)91-LD/1255 Revival of posts 1029 Under Secretary (Estt.) 12/6/2008/LD-Estt/1295 Creation of posts 1030 4. Personnel 1/31/74-PER(Vol.II)(pt.file) Recruitment Rules for the post of Assistant 1030 Joint Secretary Pharmaceutical Chemist in the Goa Medical College 1/8/89-PER Amendment of Recruitment Rules in the Institute of Nursing Education 1030 5. Public Health 45/3/2003-I/PHD Creation of posts 1032 Under Secretary 13/101/92-I/PHD(Part file) Rate of analysis fees 1032 6. Water Resources 4/4/ED -WRD/450 Policy on Rainwater Har vesting 1033 Chief Eng. & ex officio Add. Secy. GOVERNMENT OF GOA where the card population shall be 3000 instead of 4000. Department of Civil Supplies and (ii) An adult should be taken as one unit and Consumer Affairs a child below 12 years as half unit. ___ (iii) However, Gover nment may relax this nor m Notification of card population, only in public interest. D CS/S-2/FPS- Guidelines/08 Procedure In view of Section 3 of the Essential 2. The pr ocedure for opening a new Fair P rice Commodities Act, 1955 read with Clause 7 of the Shop shall be as specified under:— Public Distribution System (Contr ol) Or der , 2001, following r evised guidelines for opening Fair P rice (i ) Taluka Mamlatdar shall conduct inquir y Shops are hereby notified:— and submit the repor t about viability of r unning a Fair P rice Shop in the locality. ________ (ii) On r eceipt of viability r epor t from the REVISED GUIDELINES FOR OPENING Mamlatdar, the Depar tment shall examine the FAIR PRICE SHOPS same and convey approval for initiating process for opening of new Fair P rice Shop in the 1.(i) There shall be a Fair P rice Shop within locality. a radius of 3 kms. per ever y 2000 car d population in rural areas and 4000 card population units in (iii) The Mamlatdar of Taluka shall ther eaf ter urban areas except in five Municipal bodies i.e. give a wide publicity like publishing in local Margao, Mapusa, Mormugao, Panaji and Ponda papers, both in English and in one of the 1021 OFFICIAL GAZETTE — GOVT. OF GOA SERIES I No. 30 23RD OCTOBER, 2008 regional languages inviting applications from (ii) All the members of the Co-operative inter ested par ties for opening of New Fair P rice Society of educated unemployed must have Shop in the locality. passed SSC. ( ) He/She must be in the age group of (iv) Applications received shall be inquired iii into by the Mamlatdar and a brief r epor t shall 18-35 years. be submitted to the Depar tment, alongwith the (iv) His/Her name must have been on the recommendations. live register of the Employment Exchange for a minimum period of at least two years. (v) Repor t so received shall be examined and submitted to the Government for conveying 7. (i) The Fair P rice Shop should be financially approval for allotment of Fair P rice Shop. sound enough to lif t the entir e allotment of P.D.S. commodities in a lot in a month. (vi) Only af ter conveying of Gover nment approval, the allottee shall deposit the requisite (ii) The financial requirement shall be fees/deposits whereupon Authorisation shall be worked out on the basis of cards allotted, issued for r unning a Fair P rice Shop as r equir ed quantities of P.D.S. commodities to be lif ted, under the Goa, Daman and Diu Controlled the salaries of the employees, rent of premises, Commodities (Regulation of Distribution) Order, etc. 1966. (iii) Evidence should be taken from the proposed Fair P rice Shop owner/society in pr oof Eligibility of his/its financial strength. 3. ( ) F air P rice Shop should be allotted to i 8. The pr emises to be used for Fair P rice Shop only those persons who do not have any other should be clean and spacious enough for handling member of his family r unning a Fair P rice Shop and storing P.D.S. commodities and other non in any par t of this ter ritory. P.D.S. commodities. (ii)Parents, spouse, unmar ried childr en and unmarried brothers/sisters living in the same Other Conditions undivided family will be considered as family 9.() The Fair P rice Shop should not deal in members. i open market any of the varieties and qualities of commodities distributed through Fair P rice Shop 4. ( ) The educated unemployed shall be in i under P.D.S. the age group of 18 to 35 years and should be on the live register of Employment Exchange ( ) However, the Fair P rice Shop can deal in for a minimum period of 2 years. ii other commodities at their own cost so as to incr ease economic viability of the Fair P rice Shop. (ii) Besides, such educated unemployed shall also be completely free from encumbrance of studies. Preferences 10. P refer ence in allotment of Fair P rice Shop 5. (i) Majority of the members of the Co- -operative Society of educated unemployed shall be in the following order:— should necessarily required to be educated (a ) Registered Co-operative Society of unemployed and should be on the live register educated unemployed. of Employment Exchange for a minimum period of 2 years. (b) Any other Registered Co-operative Society. (ii) All the members of such society should be within the age group of 18 to 35 years. (c ) W omen’s Self Help Gr oup. ( ) V illage P anchayats and Urban Local 6. The educated unemployed shall satisf y the d Bodies. following conditions:— (e ) Educated unemployed. (i ) He/She must have passed SSC in any of the Schools in Goa. (f) Schedule Tribe. 1022 OFFICIAL GAZETTE — GOVT. OF GOA SERIES I No. 30 23RD OCTOBER, 2008 (g) Schedule Castes. Department of Elections (h )Freedom Fighters. (i ) Ex-Ser vicemen. Office of the Chief Electoral Officer ___ (j) Physically handicapped. (k ) Others. Direction 5-4-2008/ELECT/1476 11. P ersons r esiding in and societies of the locality wher e Fair P rice Shop is pr oposed to be The following Direction No. 3/4/2008/JS-II opened shall be given preference. dated 16th September, 2008 issued in pursuance of sub-rules ( 1 ) and ( 3 ) of Rule 10 of the Transfer of Fair Price Shop Conduct of Elections Rules 1961, and in supersession of it’s dir ection S.O. 1/87, dated 12. ( ) The transfer of Fair P rice Shops shall be i 17th July, 1987 by the Election Commission of allowed only either in the name of spouse, India, New Delhi, is hereby published for parents, children or brother/sisters. general information. (ii) Such transferee should have no business and should be unemployed. Ajit Srivastava, Chief Electoral Officer. P anaji, 3r d October, 2008. (iii) No transfer of any other type shall be allowed. _________ (iv) Only in exceptional cases where none of ELECTION COMMISSION OF INDIA the above family members are sur viving/alive, Nir vachan Sadan, Ashoka Road, New Delhi - 110 001 Government may relax and transfer the Fair P rice ___ Shop in the name of any near relative, subject to their eligibility. Direction 13. The unmarried lady owning a Fair P rice Dated: 16th September , 2008. Shop or to whom the Fair P rice Shop is being No. 3/4/2008/JS-II: In pursuance of sub-rules allotted, af ter mar riage, will have to sur render ( ) and ( ) of Rule 10 of the Conduct of Elections the shop if the husband is earning or employed 1 3 Rules 1961, and in supersession of its direction and if there is no heir as at 12 ( i ) above. S.O . 1/87, dated 17th July, 1987, the Election Reservations Commission hereby directs that the list of contesting candidates in For m 7A, at an election 14. (i ) 25% of the Fair P rice Shops shall be reser ved for S C/ST categor y and 3% r eser vation to the Legislative Assembly of the State/UT to Ex-Ser vicemen. mentioned in column (1) of the Table below, fro m the Assembly Constituencies mentioned under (ii) However these reser vations can be r elaxed by the Government only when there are no any column (2) of the Table shall be pr epared in the eligible applicants in the categor y. language or languages specified against that constituency in column ( 3 ) of the said table, and This shall come into force with immediate effect. that where the list is prepared in more than one language, the name of candidates shall be By order and in the name of the Governor of Goa. arranged alphabetically according to the script of the language first specified in column ( 3 ):- Sd/- (Sunil P. Masurkar), Dir ector of Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs & ex officio Joint When any such list is for w a r ded to the Election Secr etar y.