The Goa, Daman and Diu Khadi and Village Industries Board Act, 1965

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    "title": "The Goa, Daman and Diu Khadi and Village Industries Board Act, 1965",
    "short_title": "The Goa, Daman and Diu Khadi and Village Industries Board Act, 1965",
    "act_number": "(No. 9 of 1965)",
    "act_year": 1965,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Goa",
    "law_status": "unknown",
    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "The Goa, Daman and Diu Khadi and Village Industries Board Act, 1965",
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            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title, extent and commencement.",
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Definitions.",
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            "content": "(a) \"Board\" means the Goa, Daman and Diu Khadi and Village Industries Board, established under section 3.\n(b) \"Chairman\" means Chairman of the Board.\n(c) \"Government\" means the Government of the Union Territory of Goa, Daman and Diu.\n(d) \"Khadi and Village Industries Commission\" means the Khadi and Village Industries Commission established under section 4 of the Khadi and Village Industries Commission Act, 1956 (Central Act 61 of 1956).\n(e) \"Khadi\" means any cloth woven on handlooms in India from cotton, silk or woollen yarn handspun in India or from a mixture of any two or all of such yarns; and certified as Khadi by the Khadi and Village Industries Commission Act, 1956.\n(f) \"Member\" means member of the Board.\n(g) \"Prescribed\" means prescribed by rules made under this Act.\n(h) \"Regulations\" means regulations made by the Board under this Act.\n(i) \"Vice-Chairman\" means Vice-Chairman of the Board.\n(j) \"Village Industries\" means:-\n(i) All or any of the industries specified in the schedule to the Khadi and Village Industries Commission Act, 1956, and includes any other industry deemed to be specified in the said schedule by reason of a notification issued by the Central Government under section 3 of the said Act; and\n(ii) Any other industry specified in this behalf by Government by notification in the Official Gazette in consultation with the Khadi and Village Industries Commission and the Board.\nChapter II\nEstablishment, incorporation and constitution of the Khadi and Village Industries Board",
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            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Establishment and incorporation of Board.",
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            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Constitution of Board.",
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            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Financial Adviser of the Board.",
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        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Resignation of office by Member.",
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        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Proceedings presumed to be good and valid.",
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        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Temporary Association of persons with the Board for particular purposes.",
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            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Meetings of the Board.",
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        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Terms of Office and conditions of service of Chairman, Vice-Chairman, Secretary and other members of Board.",
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        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Powers and Duties of the Secretary.",
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        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Officers and servants of Board and conditions of their services.",
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            "content": "(b) The functions, duties and powers of the Executive Officer shall be such as may be fixed by the Board, with the prior approval of Government.\n(c) The Executive Officer may be a Government servant whose services are placed at the disposal of the Board by Government and if he is a Government servant his remuneration, allowances and other conditions of service shall be such as may be fixed by Government.",
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        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Standing Finance Committee.",
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        {
            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. Appointment of other Committees.",
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            "content": "Chapter III\nFunctions and Powers of the Board",
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            "number": "15",
            "title": "15. Functions of Board.",
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            "content": "(a) to start, encourage, assist and carry on Khadi and Village Industries and to carry on trade or business in such industries and in the matters incidental to such trade or business;\n(b) to help the people by providing them with work in their homes and to give loans and other form of monetary help to individuals or societies or institutions on such terms as may be prescribed;\n(c) to encourage establishment of Co-operative Societies for Khadi and Village Industries;\n(d) to conduct training centres and to train people thereat with a view to equipping them with the necessary knowledge for starting or carrying on Khadi and Village industries;\n(e) (i) to manufacture tools and implements required for carrying on Khadi and Village Industries and to manufacture the products of such industries,\n(ii) to arrange for the supply of raw materials and tools and implements required for the said purposes, and\n(iii) to sell and to arrange for the sale of the products of the said industries;\n(f) to arrange for publicity and popularising of finished products of Khadi and Village Industries by opening stores, shops, emporiums or exhibitions and to take similar measures for the purpose;\n(g) to endeavour to educate public opinion and to impress upon the public the advantages of patronising the products of Khadi and Village Industries;\n(h) to seek and obtain advice and guidance of experts in Khadi and Village Industries;\n(i) to discharge such other duties and to perform such other functions as Government may direct for the purpose of carrying out the objects of this Act.",
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        {
            "number": "16",
            "title": "16. General powers of the Board.",
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            "content": "(i) to acquire and hold such movable and immovable property as it deems necessary and to lease, sell or otherwise transfer any such property:\n(ii) to incur expenditure and undertake any work in any area within its jurisdiction for the framing and execution of such schemes as it may consider necessary for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act, or as may be entrusted to it by Government.",
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            "number": "17",
            "title": "17. Powers to make contracts.",
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        {
            "number": "18",
            "title": "18. Power of the Khadi & Village Industries Commission to give directions.",
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            "content": "Chapter IV\nPreparation and submission of Programme",
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        {
            "number": "19",
            "title": "19. Preparation and submission of programmes.",
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            "content": "(a) particulars of the scheme which the Board proposes to execute whether in part or whole during the next year;\n(b) particulars of any work or undertaking which the Board proposes to execute during the next year for the purposes of carrying out its functions under this Act; and\n(c) such other particulars as may be prescribed.",
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        {
            "number": "20",
            "title": "20. Sanction of programme.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "21",
            "title": "21. Supplementary programme.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "22",
            "title": "22. Power of Board to alter scheme.",
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            "content": "Chapter V\nFinance, Accounts, Audit and Reports",
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        {
            "number": "23",
            "title": "23. Transfer of Property.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "24",
            "title": "24. Funds of the Board.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "25",
            "title": "25. Application of fund and property.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "26",
            "title": "26. Subventions and loans to the Board.",
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            "content": "27.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "28",
            "title": "28. Supplementary Budget.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "29",
            "title": "29. Annual Report.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "30",
            "title": "30. Returns and Reports.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "31",
            "title": "31. Accounts and Audit.",
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            "content": "Chapter VI\nMiscellaneous",
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        },
        {
            "number": "32",
            "title": "32. Members of Board and Officers and Servants of Board to be public servants.",
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            "content": "",
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        },
        {
            "number": "33",
            "title": "33. Protection of action taken under this Act.",
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        {
            "number": "34",
            "title": "34. Power to make rules.",
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            "content": "(a) the place at which the office of the Board shall be located;\n(b) the term of office of, and the manner of filling casual vacancies among the members of the Board and the terms and conditions of service of the Chairman, Vice-Chairman, the Secretary and the other members of the Board, including the salaries and allowances to be paid to them and travelling and daily allowances to be drawn by them;\n(c) the disqualifications of membership of the Board and the procedure to be followed for removing a member who is or becomes subject to any disqualifications;\n(d) powers and duties to be exercised and performed by the Chairman and the Vice-Chairman;\n(e) the conditions subject to which, and the mode in which, contracts may be entered into by or on behalf of Board;\n(f) constitution of the Standing Finance Committee;\n(g) the procedure to be followed in the performance of functions by members of the Board;\n(h) the powers and duties to be exercised and discharged by the Secretary, the Financial Adviser and the Executive Officer of the Board;\n(i) the date by which and the form in which the budget and the supplementary budget shall be prepared and submitted in each year under sections 27 and 28;\n(j) the procedure to be followed for placing the Board in possession of funds;\n(k) the procedure to be followed and the conditions to be observed in borrowing and in granting loans;\n(l) the form and manner in which the accounts of the Board shall be maintained under section 31;\n(m) the form and manner in which the returns, reports or statements shall be submitted under section 30, and\n(n) any other matter which has to be, or may be, prescribed.",
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        {
            "number": "35",
            "title": "35. Power to make regulations.",
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            "content": "(a) the terms and conditions of appointment and service and the scales of pay of officers and servants of the Board other than the Secretary including the payment of travelling and daily allowances in respect of journeys undertaken by such officers and servants for the purposes of this Act;\n(b) the time and place of meetings of the Board, the procedure to be followed in regard to transaction of business at such meetings and the quorum necessary for the transaction of such business at a meeting;\n(c) functions of committees and the procedure to be followed by such committees in the discharge of their functions;\n(d) the delegation of powers and duties to the standing finance committee, secretary or any employee of the Board;\n(e) the maintenance of minutes of meetings of the Board and the transmission of copies thereof to Government and the Khadi and Village Industries Commission;\n(f) the persons by whom and the manner in which payments, deposits and investments may be made on behalf of the Board;\n(g) the custody of moneys required for the current expenditure of the Board and investment of moneys not so required;\n(h) the maintenance of accounts.",
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        {
            "number": "36",
            "title": "36. Dissolution of the Board.",
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            "content": "(a) the Board has, without reasonable cause or excuse, made default in the discharge of its duties, or in the performance of its functions, imposed or entrusted by or under this Act, or exceeded or abused its powers; or\n(b) circumstances have so arisen that the Board is rendered unable, or may be rendered unable, to discharge its duties or perform its functions under this Act, or\n(c) it is otherwise expedient or necessary to dissolve the Board;\n(i) all funds and other properties vested in the Board shall vest in Government; and\n(ii) all liabilities, legally subsisting and enforceable against the Board shall be enforceable against Government to the extent of the funds and properties vested in Government under clause (i).",
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        {
            "number": "37",
            "title": "37. Recovery of arrears.",
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            "content": "",
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        },
        {
            "number": "38",
            "title": "38. Power to write off losses.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) loss of irrecoverable value of stores or of public money due to theft, fraud or such other causes;\n(b) loss of irrecoverable advance other than loans; and\n(c) deficiency and depreciation in the value of stores.",
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    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "goa154",
        "Act Number": "(No. 9 of 1965)",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "1965",
        "Short Title": "The Goa, Daman and Diu Khadi and Village Industries Board Act, 1965",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Goa"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:52:45"
}