Footwear Design and Development Institute, Secretary Recruitment (Amendment) Rules, 2022

MINISTRY OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY

(Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade)

NOTIFICATION

New Delhi, the 4th April, 2022

S.O. 1700(E).—In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (a) of sub-section (2) of section 35 read with sub-section (1) of section 17 of the Footwear Design and Development Institute Act, 2017 (20 of 2017), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules to amend the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Footwear Design and Development Institute, Secretary Recruitment Rules, 2018, namely:-

1. (1) These rules may be called the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Footwear Design and Development Institute, Secretary Recruitment (Amendment) Rules, 2022.

(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.

2. In the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Footwear Design and Development Institute, Secretary Recruitment Rules, 2018 (hereinafter referred to as the said rules), in rule 4,-

(i) in sub-rule (2), for the words “Joint Secretary, Department of Commerce”, the words “Additional Secretary or Joint Secretary to the Government of India in the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, in-charge of Leather and Footwear Division” shall be substituted;

(ii) in sub-rule (4), for the words “Department of Commerce”, the words “Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade” shall be substituted;

(iii) in sub-rule (6), for the words “Department of Commerce”, the words “Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade” shall be substituted.

3. In the Schedule to the said rules, for the entries under column 12, the following entries shall be substituted, namely:-

“Departmental Selection Committee consisting of:-

(a) Additional Secretary or Joint Secretary to the Government of India in the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, in-charge of Leather and Footwear Division – Chairperson;

(b) Managing Director of the Footwear Design and Development Institute – Member;

(c) One member from Leather Industry to be nominated by the Central Government – Member; and

(d) One outside expert of eminence from prominent organizations like Central Leather Research Institute or National Institute of Fashion Technology or Indian Institute of Technology or National Institute of Design to be nominated by the Central Government – Member.”.

[F. No. 27011/1/2022-Leather]

RAJEEV SINGH THAKUR, Addl. Secy.

Note : The principal rules were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub­section (i) , vide number G.S.R. 842 (E),dated the 5th September, 2018.