Local Government in Ancient India c13.70

c13.70

The rule that members comprising the committees should change every year is very sound in principle and wholesome in its effects. After the expiry of three years since he last held office, a person might have 'his name written on the pot-ticket and put into the pot'. If he was, however, selected, he would not be allowed to serve on the committee of which he was previously a member, but would be transferred to some other committee. The annual change of office-bearers opens out opportunities to every qualified man in the village of being associated with its administration and acquainted with all its details and facts. Thus in the course of time the general assembly of the village would be practically made up of these ex-administrators, and be consequently competent to exercise a very wholesome supervision over its several committees for executive work, the efficiency of which was already secured by rules that would exclude incompetent, ignorant, irresponsible, dishonest and wicked men.