State Act

Jharkhand Panchayat Raj Act, 2001_English

Section 75 (A) Functions of Gram Panchayat - subject to such conditions as may be specified by the Government from time to time, and to the extent the fund of Gram Panchayat also the Gram Panchayat shall perform the functions specified below: (1) General functions - (i) Preparation of annual plans for development of the Panchayat area; (ii) Preparation of annual budget; (iii) Organizing voluntary labour and voluntary contribution for community works; (iv) Removal of encroachments on public properties; (v) Undertaking relief work during natural calamities; (vi) Maintenance of essential statistics of village(s). (2) Agriculture, including Agriculture Extension - (i) Execution of plan for development of agriculture and horticulture; (ii) Executions of plans for development of wasteland; (iii) Development and maintenance of grazing lands and preventing their un authorized alienation and use. (3) Assisting the Government and the Panchayat Samiti in land development, land reform and land conservation works. (4) Implementation of minor irrigation, water management and water coverage development plans. (5) Animal husbandry, dairy and poultry - (i) Implementation of schemes for improvement of breed of cattle, poultry and other livestock; (ii) Implementation of the Scheme for promotion of dairy, poultry and piggery etc. (6) Fisheries - Implementation of scheme for development of fisheries in village(s), (7) Social and farm forestry - (i) Planting and preservation of trees on the sides of roads and other public lands under its control; (ii) Implementation of social and farm forestry schemes; (iii) Implementation of scheme for fuel plantation and fodder - development. (iv) Carrying out of programme for development and promotion of sericulture. (8) Minor forest produce - (i) Providing for collection, processing, storage and marketing of minor forest produce. (9) Khadi, Village and cottage industries - (i) Implementation of schemes for development of village and cottage industries ; (ii) Making schemes for development of agricultural and commercial industries and implementing them; (iii) Organising awareness camps, seminars and training programmes, agricultural and industrial exhibitions for benefit of rural areas. (10) Rural Housing - (i) Implementation of rural housing schemes; (ii) Distribution of house - sites within its jurisdiction; (iii) Maintenance of records relating to building sites and other private and public properties. (11) Drinking water facilities - (i) Construction, repair and maintenance of public wells, ponds and hand - pumps for drinking water, washing clothes and bathing; (ii) Taking measures for control and prevention of water pollution ; (iii) Regulation and maintenance of rural water supply scheme ; (iv) Management of drinking water sources . (12) Roads, Buildings, Bridges, Culverts, Water ways and other means of communication - (i) Construction and maintenance of rural roads, drains and bridges - culverts. (ii) Maintenance of building under its control or transferred by the Government or any public Authority. (iii) Maintenance of boats, ferries and waterways. (13) Rural Electrification - (i) Provision for and maintenance of lighting public streets and other places; (ii) Assistance to rural electrification. (14) Non - conventional energy source - (i) Promotion and development of non- conventional energy - sources; (ii) Maintenance of community non - conventional energy sources including bio - gas plants ; (iii) Propagation and publicity of improved chullhas and other energy devices. (15) Poverty alleviation programme - (i) Promotion of public awareness and participation in poverty alleviation programmes for fuller employment and creation of productive assets; (ii) Selection of beneficiaries under various programmes through Gram Sabhas; (iii) Ensuring effective implementation and monitoring of schemes. (16) Education, including primary and secondary schools - (i) Promotion of public awareness and participation in primary and secondary education; (ii) Ensuring full enrollment and attendance in primary schools and its management; (iii) Providing for education guarantee; (iv) Management of secondary schools. (17) Adult and non - formal education carrying out of programmes for promotion of adult literacy. (18) Technical training and professional education - (i) Selection of rural arts and artisans and providing training to them. (19) Establishment and maintenance of libraries and reading rooms. (20) Sports and cultural activities - (i) Encouragement of sports and cultural activities, and establishment and maintenance of village clubs; (ii) Arranging cultural seminars. (21) Markets and fairs - Management of fairs (including cattle fair), markets and hats in Panchayat area. (22) Medical Facilities and Sanitation (i) Promotion of village sanitation. (ii) Cleaning of public streets, ponds, wells and roads; (iii) Construction and maintenance of public latrines; (iv) Management and control of bathing and washing ghats; (v) Vaccination; (vi) Prevention against epidemics; (vii) Maintenance and regulation of burning and burial grounds; (viii) Disposal of unclaimed corpses and carcasses; (ix) Preventive measures against stray animals. (23) Welfare of weaker sections and in particular the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes - (i) Implementation of specific programmes for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and weaker sections of the society; (ii) Programmes against exploitation of and injustice to weaker sections of the society. (24) Health and family welfare - (i) Management of health and family welfare programmes; (ii) Measures for prevention and control of mal nutrition; (iii) Encouraging small family norm. (25) Social welfare and social security including women welfare - (i) Making and implementing schemes for mentally and physically handicapped persons; (ii) Provision of pension for the old, the disabled and the destitute; (iii) Specific programmes for social development of women and children. (26) Maintenance and preservation of community assets - (i) Specific provision for community assets created by the Government, local authority and other agencies and arrangements for their proper use; and (ii) Encouraging people's participation for the purpose. (27) Public distribution system - (i) Arousing social consciousness regarding distribution of essential commodities; (ii) Management of public distribution system and constant supervision for making it efficient and transparent. (28) Management of Child Development Programme. (29) Enhancing Cooperative activities - (i) Management of co-operative - based agriculture, dairy, pisciculture and forest and environment programmes; (ii) Encouragement to co-operative - based handicraft, handloom, tasar, lac and Malwari production. (iii) Development of Co-operative marketing system. (30) Encouraging the common people towards saving and promoting collective saving system. (31) Organising self- help groups and activating villagers towards a self dependant village. (32) Maintenance of records of birth, death, marriage etc. and arousing awareness in people to register birth and death. (33) Others - (i) Substantial provision to meet unforeseen situation or natural calamity; (ii) Provision for casual medical aid to the poorest and cremation of the destitute; (iii) Cooperation in affairs of national interest such as cooperating in census, and in collection of desirable information; (iv) To work as specified by the State Government, Zila Parishad, Panchayat Samiti; (B) Additional functions of Gram Panchayat in Scheduled Area - Without prejudice to the generality of the powers conferred by this Act, a Gram Panchayat, in the scheduled area, subject to the general, control and instruction of the Gram Sabha, shall have the following powers:- 1. To manage the village market, fairs including cattle fair known by any name; 2. To have control over the sources and expenditure of the local schemes including the tribal sub scheme; and 3. To exercise such other powers and discharge such functions as the State Government may confer or entrust it under any law in force for the time being. (C) The functions of the Gram Panchayat mentioned in sub-section (A) and (B) of section (75) shall not affect the other Acts/ Rules of the Government in force for the time being, nor their jurisdiction. (D) The government may delegate powers by amending the Acts/ Rules in force for the time being relating to the functions of the Gram Panchayat or its additional functions mentioned in sub-section (A) and (B) of section (75) after due deliberation.