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L. A. BILL No. IX OF 2023.

A BILL

further to amend the Pandharpur Temples Act, 1973.

WHEREAS, it is expedient further to amend the Pandharpur Temples

Act, 1973, for the purposes hereinafter appearing; it is hereby enacted in the

Seventy-fourth Year of the Republic of India, as follows :—

1.

This Act may be called the Pandharpur Temples (Amendment) Act,

2023.

2.

In section 32A of the Pandharpur Temples Act, 1973, after sub-section (4),

the following sub-section shall be added, namely :––

‘‘ (5) The term of office of nominated members of the Advisory Council

shall be co-terminus with the term of the members, appointed by the

State Government, on Shri Vitthal-Rukmini Temples Committee. ’’.

Short title.

Mah. IX

of 1974.

Amendment

of section

32A of Mah.

IX of 1974.

Mah. IX

of 1974.

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MAHARASHTRA LEGISLATURE SECRETARIAT

The following Bill was introduced in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly on the 16th March,

2023 is published under Rule 117 of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly Rules :––

RNI No. MAHBIL /2009/40124

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STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS. 

The Pandharpur Temples Act, 1973 (Mah. IX of 1974) has been enacted

to inter alia provide for the abolition of all the hereditary rights, privileges

of ministrants and priestly classes functioning in the Temples of God Vitthal

and Goddess Rukmini at Pandharpur as also for the acquisition of such rights

and privileges and for the vesting of such rights and privileges in a Committee

established for the purpose and for providing for better administration and

governance of those Temples.

2.

Section 32A of the said Act provides for constitution of an Advisory

Council for advising the Shri Vitthal-Rukmini Temples Committee in discharge

of its duties and functions more efficiently, consisting of persons having special

knowledge and practical experience in various fields, including the religious

rites and ceremonies and the traditions and practices of the God Vitthal and

Goddess Rukmini and other Saints and for the matters connected therewith.

However, the term of office of nominated members of the Advisory Council

is not provided in the Act. The Government therefore considers it expedient

to provide in the said Act that the term of office of nominated members of the

Advisory Council shall be co-terminus with the term of Members appointed

by the State Government on the Shri Vitthal-Rukmini Temples Committee.

For the above purposes section 32A of the Pandharpur Temples Act, 1973, is

proposed to be amended suitably.

3. 

The Bill seeks to achieve the above objectives. 

Mumbai,

DEVENDRA FADNAVIS,

Dated the 8th March 2023.

Deputy Chief Minister.

Vidhan Bhavan :

Rajendra Bhagwat,

Mumbai,

Principal Secretary,

Dated the 16th March 2023.

Maharashtra Legislative Assembly.

ON BEHALF OF GOVERNMENT PRINTING, STATIONERY AND PUBLICATION, PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY DIRECTOR,

RUPENDRA DINESH MORE, PRINTED AT GOVERNMENT CENTRAL PRESS, 21-A, NETAJI SUBHASH ROAD, CHARNI ROAD,

MUMBAI 400 004 AND PUBLISHED AT DIRECTORATE OF GOVERNMENT PRINTING, STATIONERY AND PUBLICATIONS,

21-A, NETAJI SUBHASH ROAD, CHARNI ROAD, MUMBAI 400 004. EDITOR : DIRECTOR, RUPENDRA DINESH MORE.