{"id":354275,"date":"2026-01-17T16:45:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T11:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=354275"},"modified":"2026-01-17T16:45:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T11:15:41","slug":"secretary-general-of-rajya-sabha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/secretary-general-of-rajya-sabha\/","title":{"rendered":"Secretary General of Rajya Sabha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News: <\/strong>The Supreme Court raised concerns that the Secretary General of the Rajya Sabha exceeded his administrative role while preparing a draft decision on a removal motion.<\/p>\n<h2>About Secretary General of Rajya Sabha<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_354278\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-354278\" style=\"width: 242px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-354278\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Source-Live-Law.jpg?resize=242%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Secretary General of Rajya Sabha\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Source-Live-Law.jpg?resize=242%2C300&amp;ssl=1 242w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Source-Live-Law.jpg?w=299&amp;ssl=1 299w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-354278\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source &#8211; Live Law<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>The Secretary General is the <strong>administrative head of the Rajya Sabha Secretariat <\/strong>and <strong>assists the Chairman in the overall functioning of parliamentary business.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Constitutional Provision<\/strong><strong>: Under Article 98 of the Indian Constitution,<\/strong> each House of Parliament is mandated to have its own separate secretarial staff.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Appointment by: <\/strong>The Secretary General is <strong>appointed by the Chairman of the Rajya Sabha, who is the Vice President of India.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Rank and Status: <\/strong>The position holds a <strong>rank equivalent to the Cabinet Secretary of the Government of India<\/strong>, who is the senior-most bureaucrat in the country.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Roles and Responsibilities<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Advisory Role:<\/strong> The <strong>Secretary General assists the Presiding Officer <\/strong>in conducting the business of the House by interpreting rules and parliamentary precedents.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Administrative Head:<\/strong> The Secretary General <strong>manages the Rajya Sabha Secretariat<\/strong>, including <strong>budget proposals and the allocation of work among officers.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Parliamentary Functions:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The Secretary General <strong>prepares the daily <em>List of Business<\/em> for each session.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Secretary General <strong>summons members to attend sessions on behalf of the President of India.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Secretary General <strong>acts as the Returning Officer for the elections of the President and the Vice President, <\/strong>alternating with the Lok Sabha Secretary General.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Custodial Duties:<\/strong> The Secretary General <strong>serves as the custodian of the official records of the House.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Recent Developments<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the Justice Yashwant Varma removal motion case, the Supreme Court stated that the Secretary General has only an administrative role and cannot perform quasi-adjudicatory functions.<\/li>\n<li>The Court clarified that the admission of a removal motion should be decided by the Rajya Sabha Chairman or the Lok Sabha Speaker, as applicable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The Supreme Court raised concerns that the Secretary General of the Rajya Sabha exceeded his administrative role while preparing a draft decision on a removal motion. About Secretary General of Rajya Sabha The Secretary General is the administrative head of the Rajya Sabha Secretariat and assists the Chairman in the overall functioning of parliamentary&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/secretary-general-of-rajya-sabha\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Secretary General of Rajya Sabha<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1760,12039],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-354275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-polity-and-nation","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}