State Act

Jharkhand Panchayat Raj Act, 2001_English

Section 77 (A) Functions of Zila Parishad - Subject to such conditions as my prescribed by the Government from time to time, the Zila Parishad shall perform the following functions: (i) General Functions - (a) Preparing annual plans for economic development and social justice of the district and ensuring coordinated execution thereof; (b) Preparing annual plans for the schemes entrusted to it by any law and for the schemes entrusted to it by the Central or State Government, and ensuring coordinated execution thereof; (c) Preparing annual budget of the district; (d) Coordinating, evaluating, persuading and guiding the activities of Panchayat Samities and Gram Panchayats; (e) Ensuring execution of the schemes, functions and works and also the projects entrusted by any law or entrusted or transferred or delegated by the Central or State Government; (f) Re-allotment of the funds made available by the Central or State Government appertaining to the transferred functions, work, schemes and projects, to the Panchayat Samities and Gram Panchayats as per their criteria; (g) Coordinating and forwarding to the State Government the proposal of grants for any specific purpose received from Panchayat Samities; (h) Ensuring execution of plans, projects and other works for benefit of two or more than two Panchayat Samities; (i) Executing the works, schemes and projects, transferred to Panchayats by the State Government, through Gram Panchayats or executing agencies, regardless of the sources of their fund; (j) Taking necessary measures for exploiting resources, by exercising the power conferred by any law or by the Central or State Government; (k) Power to do relief work during natural calamity; (l) Maintenance of essential statistical works. (ii) Agriculture, including extension of agriculture- (a) Popularising use of improved agricultural system and adopting improved agricultural practices to increase agricultural production; (b) Opening and managing agricultural seed farms and commercial farms; (c) Organizing agricultural fairs & exhibitions; (d) Preparing plans for integrated extension of agriculture and horticulture, and causing executing thereof; (e) Causing execution after Preparing integrated plan for extension of land development and soil conservation; (f) Establishment of training centers and provisions for training of farmers. (iii) Land development, and land reforms and soil conservation - (a) Promoting and extending soil conservation activities; (b) Causing execution after preparing an integrated plan for development of barren land. (iv) Minor irrigation, water management and water shed - development - (a) Construction and management of lift irrigation; (b) Extension of water shed programme; (c) Maintenance of available water sources; (d) Development of under ground water resources; (e) Encouraging community water committees and installing community pump sets. (v) Animal husbandry, dairy and poultry - (a) Causing execution after preparing an integrated plan for improvement in breed of domestic cattle, poultry and other live stock; (b) Promotion of dairy industry, poultry farming and piggery, etc; (c) Establishment of veterinary hospitals and artificials insemination centers; (d) Measures for control and prevention of cattle - diseases and contagious disease; (e) Integrated development of fodder; (f) Extending and persuasion for activities for rearing pigs, goats and ducks; (g) Facilities of dairy farms and cold storage. (vi) Pisciculture - (a) Production and distribution of spawns; (b) Constitution of fish marketing co-operative societies; (c) Pisciculture in private and community ponds; (d) Welfare schemes for uplift of fishermen; (vii) Social and agricultural forestry - (a) Integrated management of plantation on flanks of roads and other public lands under its control; (b) Integrated management of social & agricultural forestry; (c) Integrated management of minor forest products. (viii) Khadi, village & cottage industries - (a) Aiding development of village & cottage industries; (b) Implementing an integrated plan for development of domestic industries benefiting the traditionally expert artisan, after identifying them; (c) Provision for training and financial assistant to craftsmen and artisans; (d) Popularising readymade products and providing for there marketing; (e) Encouraging organization for Khadi, handloom and handicraft industries; (f) Ascertaining the needs for raw materials and ensuring their supply; (g) Design and production in keeping with changing needs of consumers; (h) Providing for bank loans. (ix) Rural housing - (a) Integrated management of execution of rural housing programmes in the district; (b) Assisting the Gram Panchayats and the Panchayat Samities in coordinating, supervising and maintaining distribution of residential sites within its jurisdiction; (c) Identification of homeless families and integrated management of provision for low cost houses for them. (x) Drinking water facility - (a) Control and prevention of water pollution; (b) Extension of rural water supply; (c) Management of drinking water sources. (xi) Roads, buildings, bridges - culverts, waterways and other means of communication - (a) Preparation of a comprehensive plan for roads building and culverts, other than national and state highways and provision for construction and maintenance thereof. (b) Preparation of comprehensive plan for link roads to markets, educational and health centers and provision for construction and maintenance thereof; (c) Maintenance of boats, ferries and water ways; (d) Repairs of building within the jurisdiction of Zila Parishad and construction of new buildings; (e) Organizing the people for voluntary land acquisition for new roads and widening the existing roads. (xii) Rural Electrification - (a) Assistance in making available light at public streets and other places; (b) Extension of rural electrification. (xiii) Non - conventional sources of energy - (a) Carrying out comprehensive programme for promotion and development of non conventional energy plans; (b) Propagation and publicity of community non conventional energy sources including bio-gas plants; (c) Carrying out programmes for raising public - conscience regarding improved chullhas and other energy sources. (xiv) Poverty alleviation programme- (a) Preparing a time bound plan for poverty alleviation and ensuring its implementation; (b) Arousing awareness in people for full employment and creation of productive assets and participation in poverty alleviation programmes; (c) Supervision and monitoring of all poverty alleviation programmes. (xv) Primary, secondary, adult and non formal education - (a) Propagation and publicity of science and technical education in rural areas; (b) Ensuring layout and implementation of an incentive scheme with the object of ensuring full enrollment and attendance in primary schools; (c) Planning and implementing an education guarantee scheme; (d) Provision for hostels, aashrams and stipend for poor and meritorious students; (e) Extension of adult and non formal education; (f) Survey and evaluation of educational activities. (xvi) Technical training and professional education - (a) Organizing exhibition fairs etc. to encourage rural art and craftsmen; (b) Propagation and publicity of computer education. (xvii) Library - (a) Aiding Gram Panchayats and Panchayat Samities in establishment and maintenance of library and reading room; (b) Developing information centers at Block and Panchayat levels. (xviii) Sports and cultural activities - (a) Promotion, Establishment and maintenance of sports and cultural activities; (b) Convening cultural seminars; (c) Development of sports grounds and stadium; (d) Encouraging traditional festivals, dances and other arts and giving then a new dimension by publicising them within the country and abroad. (xix) Market and fair - (a) Assistance in management of fairs (including cattle fair), markets and hats in the Panchayats' areas. (xx) Hygiene and Sanitation - (a) Ensuring promotion of rural sanitation and cleanliness of public streets, ponds, wells and roads; (b) Preparing an integrated plan for public toilets, causing its implementation and maintenance; (c) Carrying out extensive programme for immunization and vaccination against diseases; (d) Preparing and causing implementing of a comprehensive plan for control and prevention of epidemics; (e) Establishment and maintenance hospitals, primary health centers and dispensaries other than hospitals of medical College, T.B. - Sanitariums, leprosy and mental hospitals; (f) Activities appertaining to maternity and Child - care; (g) Convening Health- camps in coordination with Gram Panchayats and Panchayat Samities; (h) Taking measures for prevention against environmental pollution. (xxi) Welfare of weaker sections particularly Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes - (a) Preparing an integrated plan for specific programmes for the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes and the weaker sections of the society; (b) Management of integrated programme against exploitation of and injustice to the weaker sections of society; (c) Sanction of grants for stipend, scholarships, hostel allowance to and other grants for purchase of books and other ancillary articles for the Scheduled Castes and tribes and other Backward Classes; (d) Management of hostels for benefit of the Scheduled Castes and tribes; (e) Preparation and causing implementation of plan in organizing nursery schools balbaries and Ratri Pathshala for eradication or illiteracy in Gram Panchayat/Panchayat Samiti; (f) Organizing model welfare centers and crafts centers for imparting training to the Scheduled Castes and tribes in cottage and village industries; (g) Provision for residential basic schools for the Scheduled Castes and tribes; (h) Providing marketing facilities for the goods produced by the members of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes; (i) Constituting cooperative societies of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes; (j) Other welfare schemes for development and upliftment of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes; (xxii) Health and family welfare - (a) Extension of health and family welfare programmes; (b) Integrated measures for control and prevention of Mal nutrition; (c) Extensive encouragement to small family norms. (xxiii) Social welfare and social security including women's welfare - (a) Preparing and implementing an integrated plan for mentally and physically disabled persons; (b) Integrated management of pension for the old, the invalid and destitute, the disabled and widows; (c) Specific programmes for organisations of women and children and their development; (d) Maintenance of orphanage, reformatory home and welfare institutions; (e) Encouraging intercaste marriage and giving incentive money to the couple entering into such marriage, one of whom belongs to the scheduled caste or tribes; (f) Campaign against superstition, intoxication, untouchability and others social evils; (g) Vigilance over criminal activities such as smuggling, tax evasion adulteration, and usury; (h) Identification of bonded, labourers and their rehabilitation; (i) Assistance in taking back of aboriginals infected land development of land given to landless labourers. (xxiv) Preservation and maintenance of Community assets - (a) Integrated provision for proper use of community assets constructed by government, local authority and other agencies; (b) Encouraging peoples participation in this regard. (xxv) Public distribution system - (a) Integrated programme for arousing social consciousness pertaining to distribution of essential commodities; (b) Constant supervision for making the public distribution system efficient and transparent. (xxvi) Integrated management of child development programme - (a) Assistance to Gram Panchayat/ Panchayat Samities. (xxvii) Enhancing cooperative activities - (a) Integrated management of programmes of cooperative based agriculture, milk production, Pisciculture, forest and environment; (b) Encouraging the cooperative based handicraft, handloom, Tasar, lac and Malwari production in an integrated manner; (c) Developing cooperative marketing system at the district level. (xxviii) Encouraging the common people towards saving and development group saving norm. (xxix) Assistance to Gram Panchayats/ Panchayat Samities in fromation of self-help groups. (xxx) Preparing integrated programme to activate villager towards self-dependant village. (xxxi) Maintenance of records of birth, death, marriage etc. and arousing awareness in people to registration for births and deaths. (xxxii) Others - (a) Making consolidated integral provision to face unforeseen situations and natural calamities; (b) Aiding Gram Panchayats/ Panchayat Samities in providing casual medical help to the poorest; (c) (i) Cooperation in affairs of national interest such as cooperating in census and in collection of desirable information; (ii) Collection, compilation, analysis and timely renewal of desirable date of Gram Panchayat, Panchayat Samiti at district level; (d) Administration and control, as determined by the State Government by general or special orders from time to time, the personnel employed and posted in Panchayats, including the staff transferred to the Panchayats by the State Government. (B) (i) Merger of district rural development Agency in Zila Parishad of the district - Notwithstanding any thing contained in the Societies Registration Act or any other Act of the State for the time being in force, district rural development agency of the district shall be deemed to be merged in Zila Parishad of the district and all assets and liabilities of the said agency and all functions thereof shall stand transferred to the concerned Zila Parishad and shall remain vested in it and the same shall be discharged and performed by the Zila Parishad concerned; (ii) Notwithstanding any thing contained in this Act or the rural or Bye-laws made there under, all the employees of the District Rural Development Agency shall, on the date of commencement of this sub-section, be getting the same salary, allowances and benefits exists at present. (C) Additional powers of Zila Parishad in Scheduled area - Without prejudice to the generality of the powers conferred by this Act, the Zila Parishad in a scheduled area shall have following powers - (1) Preparing a plan for minor reservoirs belonging to a specific water area, owning and managing the same; (2) Controlling the organisations and work, transferred to it in all social fields; (3) Control over the local plan, including tribal sub-plans and its sources and expenditure; (4) Exercise such other powers and performing such other functions as the State Government may, under any law for the time being in farce, confer on or entrust to it; (D) The functions of the Zila Parishad mentioned in sub-sections (A) and (C) of section (77) shall not affect other Acts/Rules of the government for the time being in force, and their jurisdiction; (E) The Government may delegate powers by amending, after due deliberation, the Acts/Rules for the time being in force with regard to the functions or additional functions of Zila Parishad mentioned in sub-sections (A) and (C) of section (77).