UT's Advisory Council formed after 7 months

After a delay of over seven months, the UT Administration has finally re-constituted the UT Administrator’s Advisory Council (AAC).

The term of previous Advisory Council had ended on March 31, 2013. The term of the high level AAC would be for a period of two years from the issue of its notification. The members of the AAC are from different fields of life including academicians, politicians, industrialists, retired bureaucrats and planners. The AAC now has 34 members while the previous Council had 42 members.  

The new Council is likely to meet this month after a gap of about a year. The last meeting of the 42 members Advisory Council was held on November 30, 2012. So far, six meetings of the Council have been held in the last three years. The AAC under Administrator Shivraj Patil was first constituted on April 1, 2010 for a period of two years. After its first term ended in 2012, Patil had directed to extend the term of the Council by another one year which has now ended on March 31, 2013 As per guidelines framed by the Administration for AAC, the members of the Council are nominated by the UT Administrator from amongst the persons belonging to different sections of the society, generally residing in the union territory of Chandigarh.