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  2. Panchayati raj in India - Wikipedia

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    Membership in the block panchayat is mostly ex-official; it is composed of: all of the Sarpanchas (gram panchayat chairmen) in the Panchayat Samiti area, the MPs and MLAs of the area, the Sub-District Officer (SDO) of the sub-division, co-opt members (representatives of the SCs, STs and women), associate members (a farmer from the area, a ...

  3. Gram panchayat - Wikipedia

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    Gram Panchayat (transl. 'village council') is a basic governing institution in Indian villages. It is a political institution, acting as the cabinet of a village or group of villages. The Gram Sabha works as the general body of the Gram Panchayat. The members of the gram panchayat are elected directly by the people.

  4. Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005

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    The main problems identified in the audit included: a fall in the level of employment, low rates of completion of works (only 30.3 per cent of planned works had been completed), poor planning (in one-third of Gram Panchayats, the planning process mandated by the act had not been followed), lack of public awareness partly due to poor information ...

  5. Centralized Public Grievance Redress and Monitoring System

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    Centralised Public Grievance Redress and Monitoring System (Hindi: केंद्रीकृत लोक शिकायत निवारण और निगरानी प्रणाली; abbreviated as CPGRAMS) is a centralised system that allows anyone to file complaints against any department of the Central or State Government of India. it is one of the flagship initiatives for ...

  6. Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation - Wikipedia

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    The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation was formed on 16 April 2007 by merging 12 municipalities and 8 gram panchayats with the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad. The municipalities are L. B. Nagar , Gaddi Annaram , Uppal Kalan , Malkajgiri , Kapra , Alwal , Quthbullapur , Kukatpally , Serilingampally , Rajendranagar , Ramachandrapuram ...

  7. Local government in India - Wikipedia

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    PRIs in rural areas have 3 hierarchies of panchayats, Gram panchayats at village level, Panchayat Samiti at block level, and Zilla panchayats at district level. [ 4 ] Panchayats cover about 96% of India's more than 5.8 lakh (580,000) villages and nearly 99.6% of the rural population.

  8. PESA Act - Wikipedia

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    A stone plaque marking the jurisdiction of a village governed by the PESA Act. The Provisions of the Panchayats (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act, 1996 abbreviated as PESA Act [1] is a law enacted by the Government of India for ensuring self governance through traditional Gram Sabhas for people living in the Scheduled Areas of India.

  9. District council (India) - Wikipedia

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    The Zila Panchayat or District Development Council or Zilla Parishad or District Panchayat or is the third tier of the Panchayati Raj system and functions at the district levels in all states. A Zila Parishad is an elected body representing the entire rural area of a district. A District Panchayat is headed by a President, who is an elected member.