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The Council has recently amended its Articles of Association.

Some of the important ones are:
1. Membership
2. Voting rights
3. Eligibility to contest in election

Any new person joining the Council will be a Registered Textile Exporter (RTE) and gets converted to a member only based on performance.

MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL

Article 6 of the Articles of Association
'A person in order to be eligible for membership of the Council must satisfy the following requirements namely':
1. he must have been an RTE for at least one year and
2. he must have to his credit during the three financial years immediately preceding the financial year in which his membership is taken up for consideration by the Committee, exports of handloom products of not less than the amount mentioned below:

APPLICANTS IN THE SMALL SCALE INDUSRTY SECTOR

Total export turn over of at least Rs.20 Lakhs for the three consecutive financial years referred above with an export turn over of at least Rs.5 Lakhs per financial year.

OTHER APPLICANTS

Total export turn over of at least Rs.1 Crore for the three consecutive financial years referred above with an export turn over of at least Rs.25 Lakhs per financial year.

VOTING RIGHTS

According to Article 33(a) at any meeting of the Council the voting rights shall be confined to regular members only and to none else.

ELIGIBILITY FOR CONTESTING TO EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE:

According to Article 36(d) of the Articles of Association, 'A person shall be eligible to seek election to the Committee in respect of any of the product group specified in clause 36© at a general meeting only if he fulfills the following conditions,
He must be admitted as a member prior to the date of the General meeting in which the elections are to be held.
He must have to his credit during the three consecutive financial years immediately preceding the financial year in which the general meeting for the election is held exports of handloom products of not less than the amounts mentioned below.
A candidate in the Small Scale industry Sector: Total export turn over of at least Rs.50 Lakhs for the three consecutive financial years referred above with an export turn over of at least Rs. 10 Lakhs per financial year.
Any other candidate: Total export turn over of at least Rs.2 Crores for the three consecutive financial years referred above with an export turn over of at least Rs.40 Lakhs per financial year.
The turnover of the product group in respect of which the person desires to contest for election should be not less than 51% of the turn over given in sub-clause (ii) above
He should not have held Office as a Committee member for period or periods totaling more than 12 years.
He should otherwise be eligible under these regulations to contest for elections.
Election of Chairman, Vice-Chairman: According to Article 14(a) the Committee may elect from one of their number a Chairman of its meetings and a Vice-Chairman and shall determine the period for which they shall hold office. The Chairman or Vice-Chairman may be an elected member/a Govt. nominee or a Co-opted member. The Chairmanship shall alternate between Committee members from North and South India.
a). The Chairman and Vice-Chairman shall normally hold Office for a period of 2 years. No person shall hold Office as Chairman for more than two full terms. No person shall hold office as Vice-Chairman for more than two full terms.
b) A person holding Office as Chairman or Vice-Chairman for 2 years shall not be eligible to be reelected as a Chairman or Vice-Chairman as the case may be unless a period of at least 2 years has lapsed since he last held that Office.