1. Name of the Association
The Association shall be called “Telangana Judges Association” and it shall have its office at H.No.1-1-293/4, Falt No.101, Mehata Towers, Ashok Nagar, Hyderabad – 500 020, Telangana State.
2. Eligibility to become Members:
All the Judges of Telangana State, including those working in other departments of the State or Central Government, or on deputation or otherwise, are eligible to become members of the Association.
3. Management:
The Management of the Association shall vest in an Executive Committee consisting of the following office bearers and members elected by the General Body.
1. President
2. Vice-President
3. General Secretary-cum-Treasurer
4. Joint Secretaries – 2
5. Members-12
4. Membership
1. The membership of Association shall be by admission by the Executive Committee on application.
2. The membership of the Association shall be subject to the payment of subscription of the rates prescribed from time to time under Articles of Association.
5. Objects of the Association:
The objects of Telangana Judges’ Association are;
(i). To work for the betterment of the conditions of Service of the Judges of the State and redressal of their grievances;
(ii). To foster goodwill and understanding among the Judges;
(iii). To promote the interests of the members of the Association;
(iv). To provide financial assistance to the Judges who have become physically disabled and the families of the judges;
(v). To promote social and cultural activities among the members and their families;
(vi). To try to prevent any reduction of salaries, allowances and waiver of deductions if any;
(vii). To secure for the officers, through negotiations, litigations and collective bargaining or any other constitutional and of legal process adequate compensation for the services rendered by them, effective machinery for redressal of grievances and protection against victimization and exploitation practices.
(viii). To endeavor to arrange a separate fund of Rs.25,000/- towards funeral expenses on causality of member of this association and the same shall be paid to the heirs of the deceased.
(ix). To endeavor to provide Group Insurance (Risk Policy) for sum of Rs.10 Lakhs to the members of this association on payment required premium and to make such other arrangements as may be feasible and to assist community development programmes as may be deemed necessary.
(x). To endeavor to provide legal assistance to members in respect of matters arising out of or incidental to their employment or in consequence of their association with the Association.
(xi). To edit and publish books, magazines and periodicals voicing amongst other matters grievances of the officers and containing matters of interest of them for circulation amongst all officers. To create website for the benefit of members.
(xii). To acquire, purchase, hire, sell, lease, whole or part of any building for the furtherance of objects of the Association.
(xiii). To acquire, purchase, take on rent, lease, whole or a part of any building for Telangana Judges’ Guest House.
(xiv). To acquire house site for the members of this Association.
(xv). To do any other social activities not listed above for the benefit of
members of this Association.
6. Funds of the Association:
The funds of the Association shall be in the custody of the General Secretary-cum-Treasurer who shall invest them in such manner and in such securities as may be determined from time to time by the Executive Committee.
7. Framing of Bye-Laws and Rules:
(i). The General Body of the Association shall have the power to frame Bye-Laws and Rules for the purpose of carrying out the objects of the Association and for the proper management of the Association and it shall have power to alter or amend such rules from time to time.
(ii). The Bye-Laws and Rules so framed, altered or amended shall be binding on all the members of the Association.
ARTICLES AND RULES
1. Name: The Association shall be called as : The Telangana Judges’ Association”.
2. REGISTERED OFFICE:
The registered office of the Association shall be at H.No.1-1-293/4, Flat No.1010, Mehata Towers, Ashok Nagar, Hyderabad – 500 020, Telangana State.
3. OBJECTS OF THE ASSOCIATION:
The objects of the Association are as set out in the Memorandum of Association.
4. Eligibility to become Members:
All the Judges of Telangana State, including those working in other departments of the State or Central Government, or on deputation or otherwise, are eligible to become members of the Association
5. Management:
The Management of the Association shall vest in an Executive Committee consisting of the following office bearers and members elected by the General Body.
1. President
2. Vice-President
3. General Secretary-cum-Treasurer
4. Joint Secretaries – 2
5. Members-12
6. ADMISSION OF MEMBERS:
(I) The eligible Judge to become member and desirous of becoming a member shall submit an application/Bio-Data in the prescribed form (Appendix-A) and pay the prescribed admission fee and subscription.
(ii) All applications for admission shall be submitted to the General Secretary-cum-Treasurer who will arrange to place it before the Executive Committee for its consideration and approval. The right to reject any application without assigning any reason thereof and any other decision of the Committee in the matter shall be final.
7. SUBSCRIPTION:
(i) The subscription for membership of the Association shall be Rs.1000/- per annum. Subscription shall be payable to the General Secretary-cum-Treasurer who in turn deposit in the main account of Association.
(ii) Each member shall pay an annual subscription of Rs.1000/- on or before 31st march of every year.
(iii) Any officer defaulting to pay membership/levy for six months will cease to
be a member of the Association. However, such members will only be
readmitted on payment of all arrears and readmission of Rs.500/-.
(iv). The Executive Committee shall have power to remove from membership any member who has not paid the arrears of subscription dues by him/her for more than ONE year in spite of notice issued to him demanding the payment of such arrears. But such removal from membership shall not affect liability to pay the arrears due by him.
The Executive Committee shall also have the power to restore the membership of any such person on payment of all the arrears of subscription.
8. REGISTER OF MEMBERS:
The Association shall keep a register of all its members containing their names and particulars.
9. ELECTIONS:
(i) The office bearers and members of the Executive Committee shall be elected at a meeting of the General Body of the Association which shall meet once in a year for such purpose and the office bearers and members so elected shall cease to hold office on the expiration of the period of TWO years from the date of election or till the next election whichever is earlier.
(ii) Causal vacancies arising in the Executive Committee consequent upon retirement or resignation from Government Service or otherwise of an office bearer or members shall be filled by the Executive committee by co-option for the remaining period of the term.
(A). Eligibility:
(i). The contestant Judge for the post of President shall be from cadre of District Judge.
(ii). The contestant Judge for the post of Vice-President shall be from the cadre of District Judge or Senior Civil Judge.
(iii). The contestant Judge for the post of General Secretary-cum-Treasurer shall be from the cadre of District Judge or Senior Civil Judge.
(iv). The contestant Judge for the post of Joint Secretary shall be from the cadre of senior Civil Judge or Junior Civil Judge.
(v). The contestant Judge for the post of Executive Committee Member from any cadre of judges.
(B). Mode of Election:
(i). The Election Officer appointed by the Executive Committee shall be in-charge of the elections and its decision in all matters (within framework of the Bye-Laws of the Association) connected with the elections shall be final.
(ii). On the date fixed for the purpose, the Election Officer shall issue election notification ONE month in advance and a notice calling for nominations for election to the various posts. Though a candidate may file any number of nominations for different posts, he can contest for one post only, failing which all his nomination shall stand cancelled.
(iii). All the nominations shall be sent in a sealed cover addressed to the Election Officer.
(iv). On the day appointed for the purpose by the Executive Committee, the Election Officer shall publish a list of valid nominations, under the signatures of the Election Officer.
(v). The elections will be held by secret ballot. Ballot papers shall be sent by post to the members at such centers which are accessible. A list of such centers will be identified by the election Officer and approved by the Executive Committee and submitted to the Election Officer.
10. CESSATION OF MEMBER/OFFICE BEARER:
(i). If the Executive Committee of the Association is of the opinion that any office bearer/member has acted contrary and /or detrimental to the objectives and interests of the Association, the case for initiating any action shall be referred to the Executive Committee.
(ii). Any member against whom action under the above Rule is contemplated shall be given a fair opportunity to explain his position before the Executive Committee. The Executive committee thereafter, may decide the action by two-third majority of the members present.
(iii). Any member of the Executive Committee, who fails to attend three consecutive meetings of the committee of which he/she is a member, without leave of absence from the President, shall be deemed to have vacated his office.
(iv). All vacancies caused by resignation, retirement, transfer, disqualification, death of the member of the Executive Committee shall be filled by cooption by the Executive Committee within the next three months.
11. DUTIES OF THE OFFICE-BEARERS:
PRESIDENT:
All the meetings of the General Body and the Executive Committee shall be presided over by the President. The President shall be the Executive Head of the Association. His advice shall be taken in all matters pertaining to the administration of the Association. The President shall have power to call for special meeting of Executive Committee and the General Body. In cases of emergency requiring immediate action, he may adopt such measures as the circumstances may demand and report his action to the Executive Committee.
VICE-PRESIDENT:
The Vice-Presidents shall assist the President/General Secretary generally in discharge of his functions. They shall also have such powers and shall perform such duties as may be entrusted or delegated to them by the Executive committee. In the absence of President, 1st Vice-President shall act for him and preside over the meetings of the Association. In absence of the President the meeting shall be presided over the 1st Vice-President and in the absence of President and 1st Vice-President, it shall be presided over by 2nd Vice-President.
GENERAL SECRETARY-CUM-TREASURER:
The General Secretary-cum-Treasurer shall act and perform all such duties as are necessary for achieving the objects of the Association. He shall conduct all correspondence, convene all meetings and generally exercise control and supervision over the affairs of the Association.
The General Secretary-cum-Treasurer shall receive all moneys payable to the Association issue receipts for all moneys received, shall disburse all payments for and on behalf of the Association, keep accounts and have custody and be responsible for all properties of the Association. He shall operate upon the Bank accounts of the Association jointly with the President/General Secretary.
The General Secretary shall as far as possible keep the Executive committee apprise of the development/actions taken by him on various organizational matters and shall involve/facilitate/encourage other office bearers to perform their respective functions, organizational matters and shall involve/facilitate/encourage other office bearers to perform their respective functions.
The General Secretary-cum-Treasurer will prepare the annual accounts and put up the same to the Executive committee together with annual report on the working of the Association, for adoption. This should be circulated to the general members for information.
In the event of General Secretary not being available for the organizational work for long duration, the General Secretary-Cum-Treasurer shall authorize one of the vice-presidents to act in place of General Secretary-cum-Treasurer in his absence which shall be got ratified by the next Executive Committee.
JOINT SECRETARIES:
The Joint Secretaries shall generally assist the General Secretary-cum-Treasurer in his work. They shall also perform such other duties as may be entrusted or delegated to them by the Executive committee.
12. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING:
(i). The General Secretary-cum-Treasurer shall convene Executive Committee Meeting at least once in THREE months for the transaction of the business at such place as may be specified by the President and he shall also do so whenever directed by the President or on the requisition in writing given by not less than 1/5th of the total strength of the Executive Committee for convening such meeting.
(ii). The General Secretary-cum-Treasurer shall give at least 7 days notice of the meeting of the Executive Committee to the Office bearers and members of the Executive Committee.
The Executive Committee shall meet to transact the following business:
(i). To consider applications for membership.
(ii). To pass the expenditure incurred by the General Secretary during the previous months and to consider and if appropriate, sanction the expenditure and/or allocate funds for which demands may be made by the General Secretary.
(iii). To take such measures as may be necessary for the improvement in the administration of the Association.
(iv). To issue directions to the General Secretary-cum-Treasurer to deal in a specified manner with any cases/problems referred to the Association by the members.
(v). If the General Secretary-cum-Treasurer fails to convene two such meetings consecutively, the President shall convene the same.
The Executive Committee shall also appoint, if necessary, from amongst its members or any other member(s) of the Association Election Officer to conduct elections. Election Officer shall not be eligible to contest the election.
13. GENERAL BODY MEETING
(i). A General Body meeting of the members shall be held once in a year during Dussehra vacation. The date and place of such meeting shall be decided by the Executive committee from time to time. The quorum for the General Body meeting shall be 1/5th of the members on rolls.
(ii). A special meeting of General Body shall be convened by the Executive
Committee on a written request signed by not less than 1/10th of the members on roll.
(iii). The meeting of General Body shall be convened by the Executive Committee giving at least 15 days notice to members.
14. FUNDS:
(i). The General Secretary-cum-Treasurer shall be in-charge of the funds of the Association and is authorized to operate on the Bank accounts maintained in the name and on behalf of the Association.
(ii). The Executive Committee shall determine how the funds accruing from time to time shall be invested.
(iii). All moneys, received on account of the Association shall be deposited in the Bank. The funds shall be spent for the attainment of the objects and portion thereof shall be paid or transferred directly or indirectly to any of its members through any means.
The funds of the Association shall not be spent on any other object than the following viz:
a). The payment of salaries, allowances and expenses to the employees of the Association to be appointed with the approval of the Executive Committee.
b). The payment of expenses for the administration of the Association including audit of the accounts of the General funds of the Association.
c). The litigation, defense of any legal proceedings to which the Association or any member thereof is a party when such litigation or defence is undertaken for the purpose of securing or protecting a right of the member of Association.
d). The conduct of trade disputes on behalf of the Association or any member thereof.
e). Funeral expenses on causality of member of this Association.
f). For publication of diary or books on behalf of association and to maintain website of the Association.
15. ANNUAL AUDIT:
The Association’s accounting year shall be the year ending 31st March of every year. The accounts of the Association shall be audited annually by a competent auditor approved by the Executive Committee.
In addition to the above, Executive Committee may appoint one of its members to scrutinize the accounts of the Association, if necessary.
16. BYE-LAWS:
(i). The Executive Committee may frame bye-laws not inconsistent with these rules and memorandum of Association, for the purpose of carrying out the objects of the Association and management of its affairs. The bye-laws may be altered, amended, replaced, rescinded or added to at any time by majority of members at a General Body Meeting.
(ii). The Bye-Laws so framed, altered or amended shall be issued by the General Secretary-cum-Treasurer shall be placed before the next General Body meeting for ratification.
17. DISSOLUTION
(i). The Association shall not be dissolved except by a motion passed by a two-thirds majority of members present at a General Body meeting of the Association, expressly convened for the purpose provided the members present constitute a majority of the total members on the rolls.
(ii). In that case the property and the funds of the Association that will remain after full satisfaction of the liabilities of the Association, will be transferred or paid to some other society with similar aims and objects