Section 8(2)(a) in Karnataka Urban Water Supply and Drainage Board Act, 1973
(a)if he has, without the permission of the Board, been absent from the meetings of the Board for a period of three consecutive months reckoned from the date of the commencement of his term of office, or of the last meeting which he attended, as the case may be, or within the said period, less than three meetings have been held, been absent from three consecutive meetings held after the said date ;