Section 96 in The Himachal Pradesh Panchayati Raj Act, 1994
96. Functions of the Standing Committees.
(1)The General Standing Committee shall perform functions relating to the establishment matters and functions relating to communications, buildings, rural housing, village extension, relief against the natural calamities and allied matters and all residuary matters.(2)The Finance and Planning Committee shall perform the functions relating to:-(a)the finances of the Zila Parishad, framing of budgets, scrutinizing proposals for increase of revenue, examination of receipts and expenditure statements, consideration of all proposals affecting the finances of the Zila Parishad and general supervision of the revenue and expenditure of the Zila Parishad;(b)the plan priorities allocation of outlays to developments, horizontal and vertical linkages, implementation of guidelines issued by the Government, regular review of planning programmes, evaluation of important programmes and small savings schemes.(3)The Social Justice Committee shall perform functions relating to-(a)promotion of education, economic, social, cultural and other interests of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and Backward classes;(b)protecting them from social injustice and all other forms of exploitation;(c)amelioration of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and Backward Classes;(d)securing social justice to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, Women and other weaker sections of the society.(4)The Education and Health Committee shall perform the following functions -(a)be incharge of all education activities of the Zila Parishad;(b)undertake the planning of education in the district within the framework of the national policy and the national and State plans;(c)survey and evaluate the educational activities of the Zila Parishad;(d)perform such other duties pertaining to education, audit literacy and cultural activities as the Zila Parishad may assign to it;(e)health services, hospitals water supply, family welfare and other allied matters.(5)The Agriculture and Industry Committee shall perform function relating to -(a)agriculture production, animal husbandry, co-operation, contour bunding and reclamation;(b)village and cottage industries;(c)promotion of industrial development of the district.(6)The Standing Committees shall perform the functions referred to above to the extent the powers are delegated to them by the Zila Parishad.(7)The Committees shall perform in respect of matters assigned to them such additional duties as may be prescribed.
