State Act

Jharkhand Panchayat Raj Act, 2001_English

Section 3 (i) For the purposes of this Act, a District Magistrate on direction of the State Government may, by notification in the District Gazette, specify a village or a group of villages as gram 1[Sabha] but, where a Gram Sabha is constituted for a group of villages, name of the village having the largest population shall be specified as that Gram Sabha; (ii) GRAM SABHA means a body consisting of persons registered in the electoral rolls relating to a revenue village comprised within a Gram Panchayat area; (iii) GRAM SABHA in a scheduled area:- Ordinarily there shall be one GRAM SABHA for a village but if members of a Gram Sabha in a scheduled area, so desire they may constitute more than one Gram Sabha in a village in the manner which may be prescribed and in the area of each such Gram Sabha there shall be residence and group of residences or small villages or villages/group of tolas comprising of communities which shall manage their activities in according with customs and usages.