State Act

The Maharashtra Village Panchayats Act.

137. Power to call for proceedings, etc.— (1) The 8[Zilla Parishad or Panchayat Samiti] shall have power— (a) to call for any proceedings of a panchayat or an extract therefrom, any book or document in the possession or under the control of a panchayat, and any return, statement, account or report which the 1[Zilla Parishad or Panchayat Samiti] thinks fit to require such panchayat to furnish ; and (b) to require a panchayat to take into consideration,— (i) any objection which appears to the 2[Zilla Parishad or Panchayat Samiti] to exist to the doing of anything which is about to be done, or is being done by such panchayat ; or (ii) any information which the 3[Zilla Parishad or Panchayat Samiti] is able to furnish and which appears to the 4[Zilla Parishad or Panchayat Samiti] to necessitate the doing of a certain thing by the panchayat, and to make a written reply to the 5[Zilla Parishad or Panchayat Samiti] within a reasonable time stating its reasons for not desisting from doing or for not doing such things. 6[(2) All or any of the powers given to the Zilla Parishad or Panchayat Samiti under sub-section (1) may be delegated by the Zilla Parishad to the President or any other officer of the Zilla Parishad or by the Panchayat Samiti to the Chairman or any other officer of the Panchayat Samiti.]