17. Provisions regarding members of board of society and directors of dissolved
company.—Every person holding office as a member of the board of the society, or as a director of the
dissolved company, immediately before the appointed day, shall, on and from that day, cease to hold
office as such member or director.
18. Provisions relating to officers and other employees of society and of dissolved
company.—Subject to the provisions of section 19, every full-time officer or other employee, holding
office immediately before the appointed day, in the society or the dissolved company, shall, on and from
the appointed day, become an officer or other employee, as the case may be, of the National Dairy
Development Board and shall hold office or service in the National Dairy Development Board on the
same terms and conditions of service as he would have had under the society or the dissolved company,
as the case may be, and shall continue to do so unless and until his terms and conditions of service are
duly altered by the Board.
19. Power of Board to restructure and streamline organisational and functional set-up of
National Dairy Development Board to secure utmost efficiency in functioning.—(1) Notwithstanding
anything contained in this Chapter, the National Dairy Development Board may make such orders or take
such action as may be necessary for restructuring and streamlining the organisational and functional
set-up of the National Dairy Development Board to secure utmost efficiency in its functioning, and the
Board shall, for achieving this object, be competent to declare any officer or other employee or any class
of officers or other employees to be redundant if it finds them redundant by way of being surplus or
otherwise due to duplication of posts of the same nature, or absence of the special expertise required for
the post in the revised set-up, or the non-availability of posts in a particular office or unit of the National
Dairy Development Board and it is not practicable to accommodate him in the type of post in the
particular grade.
(2) Nothing in this Chapter shall preclude the Board, if it is considered necessary for the purpose of
rationalising the conditions of service of the officers and other employees so transferred to it, to change
their designation, conditions of service or the scales of pay applicable to them or to reallocate their duties
and functions.
20. Schemes regarding compensation to redundant employees, etc.—(1) The officers or other
employees declared as redundant in pursuance of section 19, shall be dealt with in accordance with such
scheme or schemes as the Board may, with the previous approval of the Central Government, make in this
behalf and different schemes may be made in relation to different classes or categories of officers and
other employees.
(2) The scheme or schemes referred to in sub-section (1) may provide for—
(a) the quantum of compensation payable to any officer or other employee referred to in
sub-section (1) and the mode of payment thereof:
Provided that the compensation so payable shall in no case be less than that payable to him under
the service conditions applicable to him if his services were dispensed with;
(b) the quantum of arrears of salary or other emoluments, provident fund, gratuity or any other
amount that may be payable in accordance with the service conditions applicable to them;
(c) the provision for appeal for the aggrieved redundant officers and other employees and for the
appellate authority, being an officer not below the rank of a Joint Secretary to the Government of
India in the Ministry dealing with Agriculture;
(d) any other matter pertaining to the termination of service consequent on their being declared
redundant.
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21. Compensation for transfer of employees not payable.—The transfer of the services of any
officer or other employee of the society or of the dissolved company to the National Dairy Development
Board shall not entitle any such officer or other employee to any compensation under the Industrial
Disputes Act, 1947 (14 of 1947) or any other law for the time being in force, and no such claim shall be
entertained by any court, tribunal or other authority.
22. Provident fund, gratuity, welfare and other funds.—(1) Where a provident fund has been
established by the society or the dissolved company in respect of either of them for the benefit of the
officers or other employees and the same stands vested in a trust, the moneys and other assets standing to
the credit of each provident fund shall continue to be held in trust with the same objects as were
applicable before the appointed day and the trustees of such trusts immediately before the appointed day
shall, subject to the provisions of the trust deeds and the rules relating to the respective trusts, continue to
function as trustees in respect of the respective provident fund until and unless otherwise directed by the
National Dairy Development Board, and the rights relating to the said trusts shall, as from the appointed
day, vest in the National Dairy Development Board.
(2) Where any gratuity, welfare or other fund had been established by the society or the dissolved
company for the benefit of its officers or other employees and is in existence immediately before the
appointed day, all moneys and other assets standing to the credit of or relatable to such gratuity, welfare
or other fund shall vest in the National Dairy Development Board.
(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-sections (1) and (2), the Board may give such
directions relating to the trusts or funds or take such other action as it may deem fit so as to bring about
uniformity or to effect integration in part or in whole in such trusts or funds.
(4) The Board may, having regard to the welfare of the officers and other employees or their families,
take such steps for the advancement of their health, education or other interests as may be prescribed and
create such institutions as may be required for the purpose.
(5) Nothing in the foregoing provisions of this section shall derogate the power of the Board to make
regulations for establishing or maintaining any provident fund, welfare fund, gratuity fund or other fund
for any of its officers or other employees.