State Act

THE ODISHA GRAMA PANCHAYATS ACT, 1964

3. Constitution of Grama :– (1) The State Government may for the purposes of this Act by declaration notified in the Gazette constitute any village or group of contiguous villages as a Grama and assign to such Grama, a name which shall be of one of the villages comprised within the Grama. Explanation :– Village intervened only by forest areas, hills, streams, rivers and such other natural barriers, and lands not forming part of any village may be treated as contiguous villages : 3[Provided that in the Scheduled Areas, a Grama shall ordinarily con-sist of a habitation or group of habitations, a hamlet or a group of hamlets comprising a community or communities and managing its affairs in accor-dance with traditions and customs.] (2) Wherever the State Government deem it fit so to do they may cancel any notification in respect of a Grama under Sub-Section (1) or may alter the area comprised in a Grama by reducing or adding to the number of villages comprised within such Grama and by declaration notified in the Gazette constitute such altered area or areas as a Grama or Gramas, as the case may be, for the purposes of the said Sub-Section. (3) No Grama shall, so far as may be reasonably practicable, be constituted with a population of less than two thousand and more than ten thousand but in no event shall a village be divided and a part thereof included within a Grama.