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"content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the technical committee that has been set up is a very good and noble idea that will make this forum not be one of just talkers – not a council that just needs to talk - but a forum that has technical capacity that will make sure that proper decision making is undertaken and these are adopted after discussions. I think it is a very good thing the Minister has done; I would pray that it be properly implemented. The thing that we must look at and make sure that is does not defeat the purposes, for which we are constructing this thing, is that if we have the secretary of the technical committee having some form of tenure of office, and then we have a chairman of that committee--- I am talking about the governor who will be elected under Clause 19 to chair the governors; he will have only a one-year term. Then we will have a technical committee secretary who will continue to serve. There is merit in that but there is no merit in having only a governor who will be supposed to be the voice that will co- ordinate the actual things and decisions that will be taken happen. When the President, the Deputy President and the technical committee will be making things happen, only having one year term--- I can understand the Minister and the drafters; they need to create a level playing ground where we have one among equals who just will sit for one year, and they have another one for another year and so on. We will have a situation where really the chairmanship for that thing will be just a chairmanship and there will be nothing in it."
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