Q.The official correspondent of a co-operative society, who drafts and signs its letters and notices, is the:

This tests who, among the society's officers and the outside authorities, actually conducts the society's official correspondence.

The chairman presides over meetings, the Registrar is an outside supervisory authority, and the auditor checks the accounts — none of them is the society's correspondent.

This objective question tests which person is the official correspondent of a co-operative society — the officer who drafts, signs, and issues its letters and notices. The correct answer is option (c), the secretary.

The secretary is the chief executive and administrative officer of the society and the officer authorised to conduct its correspondence; he writes as the mouthpiece of the society, within the authority of the bye-laws and the managing committee's resolutions. That is why option (c) is correct.

The other options are incorrect. Option (a), the chairman, presides over the meetings of the general body and the managing committee and directs the secretary, but he does not himself conduct the routine correspondence of the society. Option (b), the Registrar, is an outside supervisory authority to whom the society writes — not an officer of the society at all. Option (d), the auditor, is the officer who examines and certifies the society's accounts; the society corresponds with him, but he does not write on the society's behalf. Only the secretary is the society's authorised correspondent.