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Public Service Commission, in England it is known as the Civil Service Commission; consists of three members appointed by the Crown; in Canada too it is known as Civil Service Commission, in Australia it is called Public Service Board, A Commentary on the Constitution of India, 4th Edn., vol. 5, p. 117.In India, a Public Service Commission is appointed for the Union and for each State. [Constitution of India, Art. 315(1)]...
Public service
Public service, an activity however beneficial to the people and however useful cannot, be reasonably regarded as public service if is of a type which may be carried on by private individuals and is carried on by government with a distinct profit motive. By reason of the fact that a commercial undertaking is owned and run by the State it does not ipso facto become a 'public service', Satya Narain Singh v. District Engineer, AIR 1962 SC 1161 (1163): 1962 Supp (3) SCR 105....
Public services and posts
Public services and posts, means the services and posts in connection with the affairs of the State and includes services and posts in-(i) a local authority; (ii) a co-operative society established under the Maharashtra Co-operative Societies Act, 1960 (Mah. XXIV of 1961), in which Government is a shareholder; (iii) a Board or a corporation on a statutory body established by or under a Central or a State Act, which is owned and controlled by the Government, or a Government Company as defined in s. 617 of the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956); (iv) an educational institution owned and controlled by the Government, which receives grant-in-aid from the Government including a University established by or under a Maharashtra Act; (v) any establishment; and (vi) respect of which reservation was applicable by government orders on the date of commencement of this Act and which are not covered under sub-clauses (i) and (v), The Maharashtra State Public Services (Reservation for Scheduled Castes, ...
Public service vehicle
Public service vehicle, means a carriage to which any member of the public can have free access on payment of the usual charges when a vehicle is used for carriage of a company's employees on nominal charge, then, qua-public, the employees from a separate class and cannot be said to be public, Tata Engineering and Locomotive Co. v. Sales Tax Officer, AIR 1979 SC 343.Means any motor vehicle used or adapted to be used for the carriage of passengers for hire or reward, and includes a maxicab, a motorcab, contract carriage, and stage carriage. [Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (59 of 1988), s. 2 (35)]...
utility
utility pl: -ties 1 : fitness for some purpose or worth to some end 2 a : public utility b : a service or commodity provided by a public utility [paid for rent and utilities] ;also : equipment or material used in providing such a service or commodity [an easement limited to purposes of travel which does not include the right to install utilities "Ware v. Public Serv. Co., 412 A.2d 84 (1980)"] 3 pl : stocks or bonds of utility companies [utilities performed poorly] ...
Public servant
Public servant, has the same meaning as in s. 21 of the Indian Penal Code. [Arms Act, 1959 (54 of 1959), s. 2(1)(j)]Public servant has the same meaning as in s. 21 of the Indian Penal Code. [Wealth-tax Act, 1957 (27 of 1957), s. 2]Public servant shall have the meaning assigned to it in s. 21 of the Indian Penal Code. [Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993 (10 of 1994), s. 2 ]The chairman of the managing committee of a muni-cipality is a 'public servant' within the meaning of the s. 2; Maharudrappa Danappa Kesarappanavar v. State of Mysore, AIR 1961 SC 785: (1962) 1 SCR 129.(ii) The Minister is a 'public servant'. In accordance with the instructions issued by the Government he was to preside over the meetings of the Advisory Committee. He was doing so as a Minister andin execution and discharge of his duty as such public servant, Dattatraya Narayan Patil v. State of Maharashtra, AIR 1975 SC 1685: (1976) 1 SCC 11: (1975) Supp SCR 145.(iii) For the purposes of this Act, 'public servant' me...
Consumer
Consumer, 'consumer' would include 'any person who consumes electrical energy supplied by a person who generates electrical energy for his own consumption', Jiyajee Rao Cotton Mills Ltd. v. State of Madhya Pradesh, AIR 1963 SC 414: (1962) Supp 1 SCR 282.The definition of the word 'consumer' shows that it would include a person who consumes energy generated by himself. The proposition that in the matter of the levy of electricity tax the Court should differentiate between cases wherein the energy consumed has been generated by someone other than the consumer and those wherein such energy has been generated by the consumer himself cannot, therefore, be countenanced, State of Mysore v. West Coast Papers Mills Ltd., (1975) 3 SCC 448: AIR 1975 SC 5: (1975) 2 SCR 127.The word 'consumer' is a comprehensive expression. It extends from a person who buys any commodity to consume either as eatable or otherwise from a shop, business house, corporation, store, fair price shop to use of private or p...
Begar
Begar, It is a word of Indian origin which like many other words has found its way in the English vocabulary. It is very difficult to formulate a precise definition of the word 'begar', but there can be no doubt that it is a form of forced labour under which a person is compelled to work without receiving any remuneration. Molesworth describes 'begar' as 'labour or service extracted by a govern-ment or person in power without giving remuneration for it'. Wilson's Glossary of Judicial and Revenue Terms gives the following meaning of the word 'begar': 'a forced labourer. One pressed to carry burthens for individuals or the public. Under the old system, when pressed for public service, no pay was given. The begari, through still liable to be pressed for public objects, now receives pay. Forced labour for private service is prohibited.' 'Begar' may therefore be loosely described as labour or service which a person is forced to give without receiving any remuneration for it. That was the me...
Official duty
Official duty, implies that the act or omission must have been done by the public servant in the course of his service and that it should have been in discharge of his duty, B. Saha v. M.S. Kochar, (1979) 4 SCC 177: 1979 SCC (Cri) 939.The use of the expression 'official duty' implies that the act or omission must have been done by the public servant in the course of his service and that it should have been in discharge of his duty. The section does not extend its protective cover to every act or omission done by a public servant in service but restricts its scope of operation to only those acts or omissions which are done by a public servant in discharge of official duty, S.K. Zutshi v. Bimal Debnath, (2004) 8 SCC 31(38); see also State of Orissa v. Ganesh Chandra Jain, (2004) 8 SCC 40. (Cr. P.C., 1973, s. 197)It implies that the act or omission must have been done by the public servant in the course of his service and that it should fall within scope of range of his official duty, Rak...
franchise
franchise [Anglo-French, literally, freedom, liberty, from Middle French, from franchir to free, from Old French franc free] 1 : a special right or privilege granted by the government to an individual, group, or business entity: as a : a right to conduct a business and esp. to be and to exercise the powers of a corporation b : a right granted to a public utility company to provide services and to use public land for that purpose 2 : a constitutional or statutory right ;esp : the right to vote used with the [restricting them in employment, education, the , legal personality, and public accommodation "W. H. Burns"] 3 : a right or license that is granted to an individual or group to market a company's goods or services in a particular territory under the company's trademark, trade name, or service mark and that often involves the use of rules and procedures designed by the company and services (as advertising) and facilities provided by the company in return for fees, royalties, ...
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