Section 57 in Gujarat Elementary Education Rules, 2010
57. Duties and functions of the Chairman.
- Subject to the provisions of the Act and these rules the Chairman of an Education Committee.(a)Watch over the general administration of Elementary Education in the area of the District Panchayat and Municipality, as the case may be, and submit to the Education Committee all questions connected therewith which require its decision.(b)arrange to call the meetings of the Education Committee other than the first meeting convened for electing the chairman, and shall fix the place, date and time of such meetings.(c)preside over such meetings.(d)sanction, on the recommendation of the Elementary Education Officer, changes in the date of birth and names and castes of pupils attending elementary schools.(e)if he is the chairman of a district education committee, tour in the district for not less than eighteen days in every three months for carrying on propaganda for the expansion of elementary education for keeping himself in touch with the progress of elementary education in the district and for performing such other duties as may be entrusted to him by the district Education Committee and keep a diary recording the places visited and the work done by him at such places for the Committee's information.
