Team Herald
PANJIM: Directorate of Panchayat has called for a special gram sabha meeting on October 2, in all village panchayats, the agenda being the constitution of Biodiversity Management Committee (BMC).
The functions of the Biodiversity Management Committee (BMC) are conservation of biological diversity, sustainable use of its components and fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising out of the use of biological resources, and associated traditional knowledge.
“The BMC is a statutory body, constituted /reconstituted at the gram sabha having 7 members including the Panchayat Secretary as Secretary of BMC. The six other members should be compulsory residents of the panchayat with voter IDs of the same panchayat. Two women members are compulsory and one member should be either of Schedule Caste (SC), Schedule Tribe (ST) or Other Backward Class (OBC) community. The Chairperson of the BMC should be elected from among these six members,” the notice states.
