The Secretary General of the Lok Sabha (ISO: Lōka Sabhā kē Mahāsaciva) is the administrative head of the Lok Sabha Secretariat. The secretary general is appointed by the Speaker of the Lok Sabha. The post of secretary general is of the rank of the Cabinet Secretary in the Government of India, who is the senior most civil servant to the Indian government.
Role In the discharge of his constitutional and statutory responsibilities, the Speaker of the Lok Sabha is assisted by the secretary general of Lok Sabha, (whose pay scale, position and status etc. is equivalent to that of the highest-ranking official in the Government of India i.e. Cabinet Secretary), functionaries of the level of the Additional Secretary, Joint Secretary and other officers and staff of the Secretariat at various levels.
The secretary general remains in office must retire at the age of 60. The secretary general is answerable only to the Speaker; actions cannot be discussed or criticised in or outside the Lok Sabha.
On behalf of the President, the secretary-general summons each Member of Lok Sabha to attend session of the Parliament and authenticates bills in the absence of the Speaker. The secretary general is the advisor to the speaker. The secretary general acts under the authority in the name of the speaker and passes orders in the name of the speaker. The secretary general does not work under the speaker with delegated authority.
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Lok Sabha Name Term From To Length 1stM. N. Kaul17 April 19521 September 1964 2nd3rdS. L. Shakdhar1 September 196418 June 1977 4th 5th6thAvtar Singh Rikhy18 June 197731 December 19837thSubhash C. Kashyap31 December 198320 August 19908th9thK. C. Rastogi21 August 199031 December 199110th C. K. Jain 1 January 1992 31 May 1994 R. C. Bhardwaj 01 June 1994 31 December 1995 S. N. Mishra1 January 199615 July 199611thS. Gopalan15 July 199626 April 199912thG. C. Malhotra14 July 199931 July 200513th 14thP. D. T. Acharya1 August 200530 September 201015th T. K. Viswanathan 1 October 2010 31 August 2013 S. Bal Shekar 1 October 2013 28 February 2014 P. Sreedharan1 March 201430 July 201416th P. K. Grover 30 July 2014 30 November 2014 Anoop Mishra 1 December 2014 30 November 2017 Snehlata Shrivastava1 December 201730 November 2020 17thUtpal Kumar Singh30 November 2020Incumbent
See also Parliament of India Lok Sabha Lok Sabha Secretariat Speaker of the Lok Sabha Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha Leader of the House in Lok Sabha Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Secretary General of the Rajya Sabha
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