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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 Commission
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 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)]...
Service
Service [fr. servitium, Lat.], that duty which a tenant, by reason of his estate, owes to his lord. There are many divisions of this duty in our ancient law books, as into personal and real, which is either urbane or rustic, free and base, continua land annual, casual and accidental, intrinsic and extrinsic, certain and uncertain, etc. see TENURE.The formal delivery of a writ, summons of other legal process 2. The formal delivery of some other legal notice such as pleading, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1372.The formal mode of bringing a writ or other process, or a notice in a suit, to the knowledge of the person affected by it.The service of writs of summons is regulated by (English) R.S.C. 1883, Ord. IX., which by r. 1 dispenses wit service, when (as is usual) the defendant, by his solicitor, agrees to accept service, and enters an appearance. By r. 2, service, when required, must be personal, unless an order for 'substituted service, or the substitution of notice for service,...
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...
Absorbed post
Absorbed post, 'absorbed post' means a civil service or post which existed under the former Portuguese Administration in Goa, Daman and Diu immediately before the 20th day of December 1961. [Goa, Daman and Diu (Absorbed Employees) (50 of 1965), s. 2(b)]...
Public service corporation
A corporation such as a railroad company lighting company water company etc organized or chartered to follow a public calling or to render services more or less essential to the general public convenience or safety...
Public utility
Public utility, means usefulness but it is often used to refer to a corporation that performs a public service. Hence rail, roads, airlines, bus lines, gas and electricity corporation are known as public utilities. Public utilities also means public purpose depending upon the context in which it is used in a statute, rules or regulations, Earth Builders v. State of Maharashtra, AIR 1997 Bom 148...
public utility
public utility : a business organization (as an electric company) performing a public service and subject to special government regulation ...
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