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Functionary

Functionary meaning

A person employed as an official in a bureaucracy (usually corporate or governmental) who holds limited authority and primarily serves to carry out a simple function for which discretion is minimal or not required. | Such a person who is petty, pedantic, short-sighted, uncaring, or counterproductive; sometimes also with implication of being amoral or corrupt.

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And in case he decides to go to the apex court, he can file a contempt petition,” said a government functionary.

Functionaries of various women organisations, M. Azhagammai, D. Raji, D. Chithra, S. Uvarani, and former insurance employees federation functionary K. Swaminathan were among those who addressed the conference.

He said the Leader of Opposition in the Assembly is appointed by the Speaker and not by a party functionary.

One MP (a former key functionary of the Party of Regions) was recently appointed a member of the budget committee.

The case was registered on the basis of a report of Bal Kalyan Samiti (Child Welfare Committee) functionary Yogesh Parashar after its team visited St Joseph School in Ghoreghat Panchayat area under Mavai police station limits, the official said.

There have been several such attempts in the past to defeat BJP-mooted bills in Parliament,” said a senior BJP functionary.

The staff in the Traffic Chief’s Office was surprised as a senior functionary in Police Headquarters suddenly made a decision to go cyber, they would tell me.

A senior BJP functionary said, “In politics, nothing is final.

A senior functionary said the issues flagged by the minister relating to the pendency of cases have been conceptualised in the document.

As per the police, the complainant Santosh Parab, a Sena functionary, was commuting on a bike from Naravde naka in Kankavli, when an Innova without a number plate hit his two-wheeler.

In a response, BJP functionary S.G. Suryah said Pongal is being celebrated as Makar Sankranti and Lohri in North, Khichdi in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarayani in Gujarat and Rajasthan and also in various other places.

In this widening vacuum, lots of foreign opportunists, outright enemies, and nihilists are seizing the day—on the assurance that Biden is not a lame duck, but a lame, lame duck, and Harris is a near functionary in search of an identity and an idea.

Its membership is robust — in the “thousands”, a senior functionary, who spoke to IANS — but there is very scarce evidence of it on the ground.

Sudhakar Shetty, a market functionary, stated, “The animal husbandry department of Kerala has advised containment of avian flu within a few districts in Kerala.

The NCB sources said the senior DMK party functionary will be summoned soon for questioning on two transactions of ₹7 lakh made by Sadiq.

And some state functionary will see it that way.

Entrances to have mandatory hand hygiene and thermal screening provisions – If any examination functionary/examinee fails to meet the self-declaration criteria, they shall not be allowed entry.

He is the Leader, the highest functionary of the PNC, and of the now practically defunct APNU.

It may be worth mentioning that in the Indian administrative system, the District Magistrate-cum-Collector is considered a highly powerful functionary, often compared to the French prefect.

Stating that a functionary of JACTTO-GEO, M. Subramanian, was suspended in June 2019 for his role in the strike, Mr. Pugalenthi said that despite the Madras High Court ordering the revocation of his suspension order, the State government was not doing it.