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Another move to `save' Amar Singh

Bill moved to make UPDC autonomous body

Lucknow: In yet another effort to save the Rajya Sabha membership of Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh, Uttar Pradesh Government on Tuesday tabled a bill in the Assembly turning U.P. Development Council into an autonomous body with powers like local authority.

State Parliamentary Affairs Minister Mohd Azam Khan piloted the bill in the House. When passed and approved by the State Governor, it would be implemented with retrospective effect from October 15, 2003. The State Government had passed a bill early this month exempting 79 posts of chairpersons of various councils, boards and corporations in U.P. as posts of profit.

At present, UPDC, chaired by Amar Singh, was registered under the Society Act on October 15, 2003. The UPDC Bill 2006 has all the provisions of an authority with wide powers viz it can summon any Government file and recommend its suggestion for implementation.

The chairman of the new council would be appointed by the State Government for a term of five years. Altogether 11 persons from the department would be its members, while the chief secretary would be its convenor. UNI

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