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[21 January 2025
GOVERNMENT OF PUDUCHERRY
HINDU RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS AND WAQF
(G.O. Ms. No. 113/CHRI/T.1/2024/508,
Puducherry, dated 18th December 2024)
ORDER
Adverting to the Orders, dated 30-06-2023 of the
Hon’ble High Court of Judicature at Madras in W.P.
Nos. 34726 of 2022 and 3241 of 2023 and G.O. Ms.
No. 1/CHRI/T.2/2023, dated 14-07-2023 and in exercise
of the powers conferred under the Puducherry Hindu
Religious Institutions Act, 1972, Thiru V. Veeraputhiran,
son of P. Vengatesan, Junior Engineer, Division-VII,
MRT&MMC, Electricity Department, Puducherry, is
hereby appointed as Temple Administrative Officer of
Arulmigu Sri Selvamuthu Mariamman Devasthanam,
Manavely, Villianur Commune, Puducherry, on honorary
basis. The Temple Administrative Officer shall administer
the said Devasthanam as envisaged in the provisions
of the Puducherry Hindu Religious Institutions Act,
1972 and the rules framed thereunder.
Important duties and responsibilities of the Temple
Administrative Officer are given below:
(i) To take over the administration of the said
Devasthanam along with movable and immovable assets;
(ii) Submission of compliance report on taking
over of the administration of the temple along with the
details of movable and immovable properties with a
period of fifteen days from taking over the
administration;
(iii) Submission of annual report on maintenance
of movable and immovable assets including the cleaning
and desilting of temple ponds;
(iv) To coordinate and facilitate the completion of
work undertaken by donors as per rule 13 (9);
(v) Submission of annual budget by March as per
rule 13 of the Act;
(vi) To maintain accounts as per sections 14 to
17 of Hindu Religious Institutions Act and to get the
accounts audited annually by the Directorate of
Accounts and Treasuries, Puducherry;
(vii) Shall ensure that the Poojas and Festivals are
conducted according to the customs followed by the
Devasthanam;
(viii) Shall collect all debts and funds due to the
Institution and secure them from the loss or risk of loss;
(ix) Shall ensure that appropriate proceedings are
instituted to effect all debts and funds due to the
Institution or recovery thereof and also to defend such
action against the Institution in respect of the property
of the Institution;
(x) Shall not connive at or facilitate any act or
conduct of another person which would involve a
breach of trust or occasion risk or loss to the property
belonging to the Institution;
(xi) Shall strictly conform to and carry out the
terms and shall not encumber the properties of the
Institution by persistently incurring expenditure beyond
the limits of the income of the property of the
Institution;
(xii) Shall not in any way make use of the property
of the Institution or of his position as Temple
Administrative Officer, for his self-interest or private
advantage; and shall be personally responsible for the
exercise of his judgment and for performance of his duty
and he cannot, therefore, escape responsibility by
leaving to another person the exercise of judgment or
the performance of that duty.
The Temple Administrative Officer shall hold office
for a period of three years from the date of its
appointment, unless in the meanwhile removed or
dismissed or on resignation is accepted or otherwise
cease to be Temple Administrative Officer.
(By order)
A. SIVASANKARAN,
Under Secretary to Government (Temples).
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GOVERNMENT OF PUDUCHERRY
CHIEF SECRETARIAT (HEALTH)
(G.O. Ms. No. 62, Puducherry, dated 30th December 2024)
NOTIFICATION
Whereas, the manufacture, storage, distribution or
sale of Gutkha and Pan Masala and any other food
products containing tobacco or nicotine as ‘ingredients’
were banned in the whole of the Union territory of
Puducherry, for a period of one year vide Notification
No. 1388/CS/Health/H7/2013, dated 18th June, 2013 and
published in the Official Gazette of Puducherry, No. 27,
dated 02nd July, 2013 and thereafter, being renewed
periodically, the last Notification having been issued on
05th March, 2024, published in the Official Gazette of
Puducherry, No. 13, dated 26th March, 2024;
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And whereas, the validity period of the abovesaid
Notification expired on 17-11-2024;
And whereas, Regulation 2.3.4. of the Food Safety
and Standards (Prohibition and Restrictions on Sales)
Regulations, 2011, prohibits and restricts the sale of
food products which contain tobacco and nicotine as
‘ingredients’ as they are injurious to health;
And whereas, it has been brought to notice that, of
late, the banned food products containing tobacco or
nicotine as ingredients which are injurious to health are
sometimes/occasionally available in the market in
contravention of the provisions of the Food Safety and
Standards Act, 2006 (Central Act 34 of 2006) and the
rules made thereunder;
And whereas, in the public interest, it is expedient
to prohibit consumption of Gutkha and Pan Masala in
the Union territory of Puducherry, being the food
products in which tobacco and nicotine are widely used
as ingredients;
And now, therefore, in exercise of the powers
conferred by clause (a) of sub-section (2) of section 30
of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 (Central Act
34 of 2006), the Commissioner of Food Safety of the
Union territory of Puducherry, in the interest of public
health, hereby prohibits the manufacture, storage,
distribution or sale of Gutkha and Pan Masala
(containing tobacco or nicotine), and any other
products marketed separately to constitute as Gutkha
or Pan Masala as final product, by whatsoever name
called, whether packaged or unpackaged and/or sold as
one product, or through packaged as separate products,
sold or distributed in such a manner so as to easily
facilitate mixing by the consumer in the whole of the
Union territory of Puducherry, for a further period of
one year from 18-11-2024.
(By order)
ASHISH MADHAORAO MORE, I.A.S.,
Commissioner of Food Safety.
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