 rhe itajghat samadhi (amend- ment) bill, 1958 ·(as introbuced in ~ sabra)  tile rajghat samadhi (amendment) bill, 1958 (as introduced in lok sabha) a billto amend the rajghat samadhi act, 1951 be it enacted by parliament in the ninth year of the republic of india as follows:-1 (1) this act may be called the rajghat samadhi (amend- short title ment) act, 1958 ~:nce~~~; 5 (2) it shall come into force on such date as the central government may, by notification in the official gazette, appoint 2 in section 4 of the rajghat samadhi act, 1951 (hereinafter amendment rreferred to as the principal act),-or o~'1ion 4· \ (a) in sub-section (1),-10 (i) for clause (a), the following clause shall be substituted, namely:-"(a) the mayor of the municipal corporation of delhi, ex-otjicio;"; (ii) for clauses (c) and (d), the following clauses shall 15 be substituted, namely:- (c) four non-officials nominated by the central government; (d) three members of parliament of whom two ball be elected from among themselves by members of the house of the people and one from among themselves by members of the council of states"; i (b) after sub-section (3), the following sub-section shall be ~ inserted, namely:-io ' (4) the term of office of a member elected under clause (d) of sub-section (1) shall come to an end as soon as he ceases to be a member of the house from which be was elected" 3 any member of parliament nominated by the speaker under clause (d) of sub-section (/) of section 4 of the principal act and holding office as a member of the rejghat samadhi committee immediately before the commencement of this act shall cease to hold the said office on such c:ommencernent 15 membus of paruamedt aomluated to the committet by the speaker to c:e/&lle to bold oftl~e  statement of objects and reasonswith a view to ensuring proper maintenance, preservation and administration of the rajghat samadhi, built in the memory of mahatma gandhi, the rajghat samadhi act, 1951 (41 of 1951) was passed by parliament, and a committee, consisting of three officials three non-officials, two members of parliament, and the president, new delhi municipal committee as an ex officio member, was constituted under this act ' section 4(1) (d) of the act provides that there shall be on the committee two members of parliament to be nominated by the speoaker it is desirable that the representatives of parliament, instead of being nominated, should be elected by the two houses in order to conform to the existing convention of parliamentary representation on statutory committees in the ratio of 2: 1 for the house of the people and the council of states, the number of representatives of parliament on the committee is pro posed to be increased from two to three as this would raise the strength of the committee to an even number (ten), it is proposed to increase the non-official representation also by one the existing act contains no provision for determining the tenure of members of parliament serving on the committee it is, therefore, proposed to specify that the members of parliament, elected on this committee, shall serve on i:1e committee only 1:;0 long as they continue to be members of parliament upon the establishment of the corporation of delhi, the samadhi has been transferred from the jurisdiction of the new delhi municipal committee to that of the corporation it is, therefore, proposed that the ex-officio member of the committee shall be the mayor of the corporation instead of the president of the new delhi municipal committee, as at present it is proposed to amend section 4 of the rajghat samadhi act, 1951 (41 of 1951) accordingly k c reddy new delhi; the 2nd may, 1958  annexure extract from the rajghat samadhi act, 1951 (41 of 1951) - • - • •4 (1) the committee shall consist of the following members compo5ition namely:-~i~~/:om-(a) the president of the municipal committee within the local limits of whose jurisdiction the samadhi is situated, ex-otjicio; (b) three officials nominated by the central government; (c) three non-officials nominated by the central government; (d) two members of parliament nominated by the speaker (2) the central government may appoint any person referred to in subo-section (j) or any other person to be the chairman of the committee, and if any other person is so appointed, he shall be deemed to be a member of the committee within the meaning of sub-section (1) - - - - - (3)' all persons nominated by the central government to be members of the committee shall hold office during the pleasure of the central government __ r a bill - to amend the rajghat samadhi act, i95t  t _   (shri k c reddy, minister of works, housi1tf ana supp~'y~\ 