A Brief History

4. (1) The Chairperson or the Vice-Chairperson or a member, other than the Member Secretary, shall hold office for such period, not exceeding three years, as may be specified by the State Government in this behalf.

   (2) The Chairperson or the Vice-Chairperson or a Member, other than the Member Secretary, may at any time resign his office by writing under his hand to the State Government.

   (3) The State Government shall remove a person from the office of the Chairperson or Vice-Chairperson or Member, other than the Member Secretary, if that person _

         (a) becomes an undischarged insolvent; or

         (b) gets convicted and sentenced to imprisonment for an offence which, in the opinion of the State  Government, involves moral turpitude; or 

         (c) becomes of unsound mind and stands so declared by a competent court; or

         (d) refuses to act or becomes incapable of acting; or 

         (e) is, without obtaining leave of absence from the Commission, absent from three consecutive meetings of the Commission; or 

         (f) in the opinion of the State Government has so abused the position of Chairperson or Vice-Chairperson or Member as to render that person’s continuance in office detrimental to the public interest.

Provided that no person shall be removed under this sub-section until that person has been given a reasonable opportunity of being heard in the matter. A vacancy caused under sub-section (2) or otherwise shall be filled by afresh nomination or appointment, as the case may be. The salaries and allowances payable to, and the other terms and conditions of service of, the Chairperson, Vice-Chairperson and Members, other than the Member-Secretary shall be such as may be prescribed.
5. (1) The State government shall provide the Commission with such officers and other employees as may be necessary for the efficient performance of the functions of the Commission under this Act.

    (2) The salaries and allowances payable to, and other terms and conditions of service of, the officers and other employees appointed for the purpose of the Commission shall be such as may be prescribed.

6. The salaries and allowances payable to the Chairperson, Vice-Chairperson and Members, other than the Member-Secretary, and the administrative expenses, including salaries, allowances and pension payable to the officers and other employees referred to in section 5shall be paid out of grant made by the State Government.

7. No act or proceeding of the Commission or any committee thereof shall be called in question on the ground merely of the existence of any vacancy in or any defect in the constitution of the commission or such Committee as the case may be.

8. The Commission may appoint such committee or committees consisting wholly of Members as may consider necessary in the discharge of its function under this Act.

9. (1) The Commission or a Committee thereof shall meet at such time and such place as the Chairperson may think fit.
   (2) The Commission shall regulate its own procedure and the procedure of the committee thereof.
   (3) All orders and decisions of the Commission shall be authenticated by the signature of the Chairperson or Vice-chairperson or any Officer of the Commission authorized in writing by the Chairperson or Vice-Chairperson in this behalf.

10. The commission shall have the power to invite a representative of the National Commission for Women to its meeting as it may deem necessary. The Functions of the State Women’s Commission 
(Chapter III, Section 11 of the Tripura Commission for Women Act, 1993)

11. (I) Subject to the provision of this Act, the Commission shall perform all of the following functions: 
             (a) Investigate and examine all matters relating to the safeguards provided for women under the Constitution of India (hereinafter referred to as the Constitution) and other laws and recommend steps to be taken by the State Government for effective implementation of such safeguards; 
             (b) Review the existing provisions of the Constitution and other laws affecting women and recommend amendments thereto so as to suggest remedial legislative measure to meet any lacunae, inadequacies or shortcomings in such legislations;
             (c) Take up the cases of violation of provisions of the Constitution and of other laws relating to women in the State with appropriate authorities;
             (d) Look into complaints and take suo moto notice of matters relating to –
     (i) deprivations of women’s rights;
     (ii) Non-implementation of laws enacted to provide protection to
women 
    (iii) Non-compliance of policy decisions, guidelines, instructions aimed at mitigating hardships and ensuring welfare and relief to women and taken up issues arising out of such matters with appropriate authorities; call for special studies or investigations into specific problems or situations arising out of discrimination and atrocities against women and identify the constraints so as to recommend strategies for their removal; evaluate the progress of advancement of women in the State;
visit a jail, destitute girls’ home, women’s institutions or other place of custody where women are kept as prisoners or otherwise and take up with concerned authorities such matters for remedial action as may be necessary; any other matter which may be referred to it by the State Government.

    (2) The State Government may consult the Commission on policy matters affecting women.

    (3) The Commission shall, while investigating any matter referred to in clauses (a) and (d) of sub-section (1), have all the powers of a civil court under the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 while trying a suit, and, in particular, in respect of the following matters: 
         (a) summoning and enforcing the attendance of any person from any part of India examining him on oath;
         (b) requiring the discovery and production of any document;
         (c) receiving evidence on affidavits;
         (d) any other matter which may be prescribed.

    (4) (a) The Commission shall present to the State Government every six months and at such other times as the Commission may deem fit reports of its activities together with its recommendations and the State Government shall cause them to be laid before the State Legislature as soon as possible along with a memorandum explaining the action taken or proposed to be taken on the recommendations and reasons for non-acceptance, if any, of any of such recommendations.

          (b) It shall be the duty of the Commission to furnish comments and recommendations on any report of the National Commission for Women on any matter with which the State Government is concerned as that Government may call for.