Rules of Indian national Green Party
UNDER ARTICLES IX, X AND XII
1. Membership Forms of the Party shall be printed by the respective State/UT/Metro Units only.
2. Membership Forms shall be serially numbered. After a six year term, the serial number will again be from 1. They shall carry the signatures of the respective State/UT/Metro President.
3. Membership forms shall be issued in the form of books of not less than ten and not more than hundred forms each.
4. A District Unit shall primarily be responsible for the enrolment of members in the District. The State Units shall issue membership forms to the District Units. As a special case, membership forms will also be issued to individual members who is member of the Party but not more than fifty forms shall be issued at one time. Additional membership form shall be issued to the individual who is member of the Party only when full account of the forms already issued is rendered and fees deposited. If there are complaints that any District Unit is not issuing forms properly, the State Unit, after due verification of facts may issue forms to the Party Units or individuals who are members of the Party and inform the District Unit concerned accordingly.
5. When membership forms are issued to the individuals or Committees, a signed acknowledgment shall be obtained in all cases and an undertaking to return the unused forms with proper accounts, whenever called upon to do so, should be obtained. In the event of any individual failing to return the unused forms and/or accounts of used forms in time he/she shall be disqualified from contesting organisational elections for that term.
6. The District Committees/Units shall prepare the list of members for every term, local committee/subordinate committees. New members enrolled shall be added to the list. In a detailed proforma of the total number of members, each Subordinate Committees would send to the State Office. While preparing the proforma the number of those members who have died or resigned or were removed during the term would also be mentioned and their number reduced from the total list.
7. In order to give the Party a well informed and members ideologically Oriented Cadre, the Party members at all levels shall participate in the study programme laid down by the Working Committee for Members.
8. Active member forms will also be printed by the State Unit. The Completed forms received by the Subordinate Unit from the members would be forwarded to the District Party Office for their approval. The approved forms would be sent to the District Office where a list of active members would be prepared. Copies of these lists would be sent to the State and Centre. No member of the Party can enroll in more than one place.
9. If a member wants a change of place he/she will have to apply under Article IX (A) (5).
10. The amount received by the State from District active member forms would be distributed as under.

Subordinate 10%
District 15%
State/UT/Metro 15%
National 25%
Reserved for Central Election Fund 35%
11. The State shall immediately send to the National Level Committee its share of the contribution i.e 35% for the Central Election Fund and 25% for the National Committee. The State shall also send the share of the Districts Committee/ Subordinate Committees to the respective districts.
12. Any State or its subordinate unit which fails to comply with these rules shall be liable to disciplinary action.
13. Rules for disposal of objections or appeals there from for the preparation of electoral rolls will be framed by the National Executive.
14. For the Party Elections, generally every two years. The National Executive would prepare the time table.
15. Area of enrolment of member and active members shall be confined to the State / UT concerned.
16. Renewal of Membership of a person will be deemed to have been completed by depositing biennial subscription of Rs Ten as membership fee. The deposit of fee shall be entered in the permanent register in the column specified for this purpose against the name of each number. The member depositing the fee shall be given a separate receipt of payment. Such receipt books shall be printed and supplied by the State Committee.
17. Identity Cards to each Active Member with his/her photograph pasted on it will be issued. The Card will bear signature of the President of the District/UT/State concerned.
18. The following shall be the minimum tasks for Active members of the Party :
a) Enrolment of Members and Active Members.
b) Collection of Party Funds.
c) Training Programmes of political and ideological study as directed by the National Executive from time to time shall be applicable to Active Members / Office Bearers of the Party. Failure to participate in the programmes so laid down may attract disqualification for holding office in the Party Organisation.
d) Enrolment of subscribers to the Party periodicals published by any Party Executive or any periodical recognised by the State Executive concerned.
e) Work in the field of social reforms, such as work against dowry system, child marriage, social exploitation, child labour, exploitation of women and work for family planning etc.
f) All members should usually use swadeshi goods or articles.
g) All members shall promote one or more of the following constructive activities :
i) Environmental Purity.
ii) Agricultural Development.
iii) Education.
iv) Prohibition.
v) Khadi and Village Industry.
vi) Organisation of Youth and Students.
vii) Organisation for Women.
viii) Organisation for retired Armed Forces Personnel.
ix) Organisation for Free Legal Aid.
x) Organisation for Old Aged Persons.
xi) Organisation for Freedom Fighters and their family.
xii) Organisation of Labour.
xiii) Organisation of Kisans.
xiv) Small Savings Campaign.
xv) Village Sanitation, Health and Hygiene.
xvi) Rashtrabhasha Prachar.
xvii) Promotion of Co-operatives.
xviii) Work on the Constituencies.
xix) Leprosy Work.
xx) Welfare of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes.
xxi) Welfare of Women, Child and Old aged Persons.
xxii) Removal of untouchability.
xxiii) Work for National Integration- work among minorities.
xxiv) Adult Education and Library Movement.
xxv) Any special programme as may be laid down by the National Executive or Technical/Professional Wing of the Party under the Constitution.
UNDER ARTICLE XIV :
SUBORDINATE/LOCAL COMMITTEE
1. The Subordinate/Local Committee will be the basic unit of the Organisation.
2. A Subordinate/Local Committee shall, as far as possible, correspond to the area or territory falling under one Polling Booth or Polling Station in the General Election.
3. All members of the Subordinate/Local Committee shall meet at an appointed time, date and place, fixed for elections. Candidates will file their nomination papers one hour before the time of poll.
4. The President of the Subordinate/Local Committee shall be elected from amongst the active Members. Any local member can seek election to the Membership of the Executive Committee.
5. The election of the President and Executive Members of the Subordinate/Local Committee shall be by show of hands.
UNDER ARTICLE XV :
DISTRICT COMMITTEE
1. Election for the District Committee and State Council Members to be elected from that District will be held only when 50% of the total Subordinate/Local Committee in the District have been duly constituted.
2. A candidate for election to a District Committee should ordinarily be resident of the District Concerned.
3. Voting in the election of Members of a District Committee by the unit members of the Subordinate/Local Committee shall be by ballot.
CONDUCT OF ELECTION
1. The National Executive shall appoint a Returning Officer for conducting the biennial election of the Party.
2. The All India Returning Officer shall appoint a Returning Officer for each State for the conduct of elections up to the District Committee and members of the State Council from those Districts. The State Returning Officer will in turn appoint Assistant Returning Officer for conducting Subordinate/Local Committee elections. There will be no bar for State Returning Officer to be a candidate for the National Council.
3. Election disputes during election upto the Subordinate/Local Committee would be decided by the District Returning Officer. These must be submitted within three days of the disputes. They will be disposed off within seven days. Appeal will lie with the State Returning Officer within ten days.
4. Election disputes during election upto the District level Committee and State level Committee would be decided by the State Returning Officer. These must be submitted within five days of the disputes. They will be disposed off within ten days. Appeal will lie with the All India Returning Officer within fortnight.
DISCIPLINARY ACTION
1. Disciplinary Action Committee of not more than five members will be constituted by the National and State Executive respectively at the National and State Levels. These Committees shall draw their own procedures.
2. A State Disciplinary Action Committee can take action only against Subordinate/local Committee to it and individuals other than Members of the National Council and Members of Parliament.
3. On receipt of a complaint for breach of discipline, the National President or the State President, if he/she so decides may suspend an individual or a unit.
4. No final decision for breach of discipline shall be taken against any individual or a unit without an opportunity being given to the individual or unit concerned to explain and answer such charge as are made against it or him/her.
5. The State President will forward the said complaint alongwith the explanation received thereto by the individual or the unit to the Disciplinary Action Committee which will submit its report to the President as early as possible.
6. The State President will ordinarily take action consistent with the recommendation of the Disciplinary Action Committee. But if he/she so desires he may refer the said report for the consideration of his Executive and thereafter action will be taken according to the decision of the Executive.
7. Any disciplinary action at the State level shall be reported to the National President within a week of taking such action.
8. Any unit or member aggrieved by the disciplinary action taken by the State Unit may go in appeal within a fortnight to the Central Disciplinary Committee, but any appeal against the decision of a State Executive will be considered only in a meeting of the National Executive.
9. Any member contesting election against the official candidate of the Party will be summarily expelled from the Party by the State President or the All India President.
POWER OF SUSPENSION
1. The National President can place under suspension any Council/Executive subordinate to the National Executive and any member of the Party if there is a prima facie breach of discipline. The President should place this matter before the next meeting of the National Executive.
2. The President of the State Executive can place under suspension any Executive/Council, any member but not the member of Parliament or National Executive. All disputes relating to suspension shall be placed before State Executive and proceedings should be initiated so as to dispose of disciplinary action case within one month of the suspension order.
BREACH OF DISCIPLINE
Breach of discipline includes the following :
1. Acting or carrying on propaganda against any programme or decision of the Party.
2. Opposing the Official Candidate of the Party in Elections.
3. Violating any rule or disobeying any order passed by a competent authority of the Party.
4. Taking a Party dispute to any other agency outside the Party.
5. Collecting Funds for the Party unauthorisedly, misusing the Party or indulging in malpractices in enrolment of members or in the conduct of Party Election.
6. Acting in a way calculated to lower the prestige of the Party or carrying on propaganda against any Party Unit or its Office Bearers.
SITTINGS
1. Sitting of the various units of the Party shall ordinarily be held at least as under :
a) National Council - Once in a year.
b) State Council - Once in a year.
c) National Executive - Twice in a year.
d) State Executive - Twice in a year.
e) Regional Committee - Once Every Three Months.
f) District Committee - Once Every Three Months.
g) Subordinate/Local Committee - Once in a month.
2. In case no meeting of a Regional, District or Subordinate/Local Committee is held even once in six months, the unit will automatically stand dissolved. If a unit becomes inactive, the State Executive will have the power to dissolve the unit upto District Level after giving it an opportunity to explain.
3. The State President will nominate an ad-hoc body to look after the work of the dissolved unit. Normally, elections will be held within three months of the ad-hoc arrangement. But, if even after six months a duly elected unit is not formed, the earlier announced ad-hoc body shall be replaced by another ad-hoc arrangement.

NOTICE FOR SITTING Ordinary Emergency Meeting Meeting
1. Local Committee 5 Days 2 Days
2. Regional Committee 10 Days 3 Days
3. District Committee 15 Days 5 Days
4. State Executive 21 Days 7 Days
5. National Executive 21 Days 7 Days
6. State Council 40 Days 7 Days
7. National Council 40 Days 7 Days

VACANCIES
1. Members absenting without approval for three consecutive meetings of their unit will be liable to be removed by a resolution of the concerned unit.
2. President of a Local, District or a Regional Committee can be removed by a resolution passed by a two third majority of the members present and voting in a meeting of the unit concerned.
3. A President can remove an office-bearer nominated by him/her only after a motion to the effect is adopted by his/her Committee.
4. The All India President or a State President can be removed by a resolution passed by a two third majority of the members present and voting at a requisitioned meeting of the National or the State Council as the case may be.
5. To fill vacancy in any Committee or a Council the remaining elected members of that body will be entitled to fill the vacancy. But vacancy in the number of women, SC/ST members will be filled up by members belonging to the respective categories only.
6. Vacancy of the President of any unit will be filled in the same manner as was done originally, till then an ad-hoc appointment will be made by the President of the higher body who in turn will nominate his/her office bearers from amongst the members of the existing Committee/Executive.
7. No post will remain vacant for more than six months.
QUORUM
1. Quorum for all Committee/Executive meetings shall be one-third of the strength of the unit or ten, whichever is less.
2. Quorum for all Council meetings will be one-tenth of the total strength of the Council. A meeting adjourned for lack of quorum will meet again after the same lapse of time at the same place and time to transact the same business.
Provided that there shall be no need of a quorum for an adjourned meeting.
DELEGATE
A delegate shall not be permitted to take part in any session or meeting of the Council unless he/she pays the requisite delegate fee.
REPRESENTATION OF MORCHAS AND CELLS
The Presidents of all approved Morchas and Cells of the Party shall be permanent invitees of the corresponding Indian National Green Party Executive Committee.
FUNCTIONING OF CELLS AT DISTRICT LEVEL
The District Executive shall constitute the following Cells :
a) A Student Cell.
b) A Youth Cell.
c) A Kisan Cell.
d) An Industrial Cell.
e) An Industrial Workers Cell.
f) A Teachers Cell.
g) A Women’s Cell.
h) A Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe Cell.
i) A Freedom Fighter Cell.
j) A Minority Cell.
k) A Free Legal Aid Cell.
FUNCTIONS OF THE OFFICE BEARERS / PRESIDENT
1. To preside over the sittings of the concerned Committee or Council or Executive.
2. To nominate, as per the Constitution, members/office bearers and members of the Committee/Executive.
3. To exercise any power of his/her Executive/Committee, in an emergency, when it is not in session provided that any such action will have to be approved in its subsequent meeting.
4. To allocate the work and duties amongst the office-bearers and members of the Committee/Executive/Council.
5. To take part in talks, discussions, debate with other parties and to nominate representatives from the Party for the work.
6. To decide the date of the Committee/Executive meeting and to convene the meeting as per rules of the Party Constitution.
7. To conduct Study Camps and Conferences as organised by the Committee/Executive.
8. To appoint Presidents for the various Morchas and Cells of the Party and to co-ordinate their functioning.
9. To guide the Committee/Executive in implementing programmes for furthering the organisational and constructive activities and agitational programmes of the Party.
10. The Presidents of the various units will be authorised to spend upto the following amounts on their own:

President of Subordinate/Local Committee : Rs. 1000/-
President of District Committee : Rs. 5000/-
President of Regional Committee : Rs. 5000/-
President of State/UT Executive : Rs. 25,000/-
National President : As considered advisable.
If under any unavoidable circumstances, amount more than authorised is spent, it would be essential to get the necessary approval at the very next meeting of the Committee/Executive.
VICE-PRESIDENT
1. To carry out the responsibilities as directed by the President.
2. In the absence of the President the Vice-President specially authorised by the President in writing, will preside over the meeting. If no such direction has been made, any one of the Vice-President or if all the Vice-Presidents are absent then the Committee/Executive can call on any of its members present to preside.
3. In place of the President, the Vice-President directed by the President will discharge all the functions and powers of the President.
GENERAL SECRETARY
1. To convene meetings as per the instructions of the President, issue circulars and agenda as well as to organize the meetings.
2. To maintain the minutes of the meeting and to circulate it among members.
3. To organize programmes, meeting, conferences, agitations and to look after publicity.
4. To run the office of the Party and make necessary appointments with the consent of the President.
5. To execute the decisions of the President and the Committee / Executive.
SECRETARY : To discharge the functions allocated by the President or on behalf of the President and to help the General Secretary in his/her duties in the welfare of the Party.
TREASURER
1. To maintain the income and expenditure account of the Committee/Executive.
2. To get the accounts examined/audited and to report the same to the Committee annually.
3. To audit the accounts of all Subordinate Units.
4. To inform the Committee regularly the progress of the accounts.
UNDER ARTICLE VII :
TECHNICAL/PROFESSIONAL CONSULTANCY WING
1. To maintain the receipts/expenditures at Technical/Professional Consultancy Wing.
2. To raise funds from authorised/legal sources.
3. To arrange expenditures to be incurred by candidates standing elections to the Central as well as State legislatures or/and as the case may be.
4. To organize programmes, meetings, conferences and look after publicity of the Technical/Professional Consultancy Wing.
5. To liaison with financial/Institutional establishments for collections of donations / commissions etc.
CHAIRPERSON
1. To preside over the sittings of the Technical/Professional Consultancy Wing.
2. To nominate, as per the Constitution, members/office bearers in consultation with the Secretary of the Technical/Professional Consultancy Wing.
3. To exercise any power of the Technical/Professional Consultancy Wing, in an emergency, when it is not in session provided that any such action will have to be approved in its subsequent meeting.
4. To allocate the work and duties amongst the office-bearers and members of the Technical/Professional Consultancy Wing on advice from the Secretary of the Wing.
5. To take part in talks, discussions, debates with other parties and to nominate representatives from the Technical/Professional Consultancy Wing for the work.
SECRETARY
1. To convene meetings as per the instructions of the Chairperson, issue circulars and agenda as well as to organize the meetings.
2. To maintain the minutes of the meeting and to circulate it among members.
3. To organize programmes, meeting, conferences, agitations and to look after publicity.
4. To run the office of the Technical/Professional Consultancy Wing and make necessary appointments with the consent of the Chairperson.
5. To execute the decisions of the Chairperson and the Technical/Professional Consultancy Wing.
JOINT SECRETARY
To discharge the functions allocated by the Secretary as approved by the Chairperson and to help the Secretary in his duties in the functioning of the Technical/Professional Consultancy Wing.
REQUISITIONED MEETINGS
The number required for making a quorum for the Executive Committee or Council Meetings, will be necessary for making a joint representation to the concerned President specifying the subject for which a requisitioned meeting is asked for. On receipt of such a requisition, a Committee or Executive meeting shall be called within ten days and a Council meeting within one month.
PARTY FUNDS
1. Funds collecting receipts will be printed at the National and State Levels only.
2. Each receipt will be duly numbered and issued in books containing ten to hundred receipts.
3. Each receipt shall bear a facsimile signature of the concerned Treasurer. The Counterfoil will be signed in full by the member who collects the money.
4. Bank Account will be opened in the name of the Party upto a Subordinate/Local Committee level to be jointly operated by any two amongst the Treasurer, and the President or the General Secretary of The unit.
5. Amount of Purse presented to a State Leader shall be divided as under :
Subordinate/Local 15%
District 20%
State 25%
National 40%
In case where a purse has been presented to a Central Leader it shall be remitted to the Centre.
6. Accounting year shall be from First April.
7. Annual Accounts of each Committee will be audited by a person appointed by a resolution of the concerned Committee and approved annually..