Civil Writ Petition No. 8132 of 2009 1 In the High Court of Punjab and Haryana, at Chandigarh. Civil Writ Petition No. 8132 of 2009 Date of Decision: 30.7.2010 Gram Panchayat Chak Manhas, District Gurdaspur …Petitioner Versus State of Punjab and Others …Respondents CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE KANWALJIT SINGH AHLUWALIA. Present: Mr. Onkar Singh, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. J.S. Puri, Additional Advocate General, Punjab, for the respondents. Kanwaljit Singh Ahluwalia, J. (Oral) Mr. Onkar Singh, Advocate, appearing for the petitioner submits that he will confine his prayer, that, in the newly constituted Village Education Development Committee, there should be two representatives of village Gram Panchayat i.e. one male and one female. Mr. Puri has referred to the affidavit, filed by Karamjit Singh, District Education Officer, Elementary Education, Gurdaspur, wherein it is stated that the State of Punjab has issued directions that two members of the Gram Panchayat viz. one male and one female, are necessary to be made members of the committee. He further submits that two members of the Gram Panchayat have already been made Civil Writ Petition No. 8132 of 2009 2 members of the Committee to satisfy the said condition. This fact is disputed by learned counsel for the petitioner. Be that as it may, the present writ petition is disposed of with a direction that if two members of the Gram Panchayat, one male and one female, have not been made members of the Village Education Development Committee, within a period of one month, the Committee shall be reconstituted and two members of the present Gram Panchayat viz. one male and one female, will be inducted as members thereof. (Kanwaljit Singh Ahluwalia) Judge July 30, 2010 “DK”