Chapter 5 Chapter 5

पंचायतों के कामकाज का संचालि तथा पंचायत के सम्भमलि की प्रक्रिया

Procedure of meeting –

1. (1) Subject to the provisions of this Act and the rules made thereunder, the procedure of the meeting and conduct of business of the Panchayat shall be such as may be prescribed.
2. (2) The President and all members of a Panchayat, whether elected or not, shall have the right to vote in the meeting of the Panchayats.
3. (3) The quorum for a meeting of the Janpad Panchayat and Zila Panchayat shall be one-third of the members constituting the concerned Panchayat for the time being, and for a meeting of the Gram Panchayat, it shall be one-half of the members constituting the concerned Panchayat for the time being. If there is no quorum in the meeting, the presiding authority shall adjourn the meeting to such date and time as may be fixed by him. The notice of the meeting so fixed shall be pasted in the office of the Panchayat. No quorum shall be necessary for the meeting so adjourned, and no new subject shall be brought before the meeting for consideration.
4. (4) The President or the Sarpanch, as the case may be, shall convene the meeting of the Zila Panchayat, Janpad Panchayat or Gram Panchayat at least once in every month. If the President or Sarpanch fails to convene the meeting in any month, then the Chief Executive Officer of the Janpad Panchayat or Zila Panchayat, or the Secretary of the Gram Panchayat, as the case may be, shall issue notice for the meeting of the concerned Panchayat after the expiry of 25 (twenty-five) days from the date of the previous meeting.
5. (5) The report of the income and expenditure of the period between the previous meeting and the current meeting of the Gram Panchayat, along with the report of the cumulative income and expenditure from the current financial year up to the current meeting, and along with other subjects, shall be placed before the Gram Panchayat by the Secretary of the Gram Panchayat and the report shall be discussed by the Gram Panchayat. In the case of Janpad Panchayat and Zila Panchayat, such report shall be placed by the Chief Executive Officer in its meeting once in three months. The report shall be prepared in such form as may be prescribed.
6. (6) If more than fifty percent of the members of the Panchayat request in writing for a special meeting of the Panchayat, the President or Sarpanch, as the case may be, shall convene such meeting within seven days from the receipt of such request. If the President or Sarpanch, as the case may be, fails to convene the meeting on such request, the members who have requested for the special meeting may themselves convene the meeting, and thereupon the Chief Executive Officer of the Zila Panchayat or Janpad Panchayat, or the Secretary of the Gram Panchayat, as the case may be, shall issue the notice of the meeting.
7. (7) If the President or Sarpanch, as the case may be, fails to act in accordance with sub-section
8. (4) or
9. (6) on at least three occasions, he shall be liable to be removed from his post under Section 40, and the provisions of Section 40 shall apply to the person who has been so removed.

Review of subjects finally disposed of by Panchayat – No subject once finally disposed of by the Panchayat shall be reviewed by it within six months unless the written consent of at least three-fourths of its members, who are entitled to vote, is obtained in its connection or unless the prescribed authority has given instructions to review it.

Standing committees of Gram Panchayat. —

1. (1) Gram Panchayat may constitute not more than three standing committees and such committees shall exercise such powers as may be assigned to them by the Gram Panchayat. These committees shall be under the general control of the Gram Panchayat.
2. (2) No person shall be a member of more than two committees at a time.
3. (3) The term of office of the members of the standing committee and the procedure for conduct of business of the standing committee shall be such as may be prescribed.

Standing committees of Janpad Panchayat and Zila Panchayat. —

1. (1) Each Janpad Panchayat and each Zila Panchayat shall constitute the following standing committees from amongst its elected members, namely: —
   • (a) General Administration Committee — for items relating to establishment and services of Janpad Panchayat or Zila Panchayat, administration, integrated rural development plan, budget, accounts, taxation and other financial matters and items which do not come under the purview of other committees;
   • (b) Agriculture Committee — for agriculture, animal husbandry, power, irrigation including soil conservation and contour bunding and other matters relating to fisheries, compost manure, distribution of seeds and other matters relating to agriculture and animal husbandry development;
   • (c) Education Committee — for education including adult education, social welfare of the disabled and destitute, woman and child welfare, removal of untouchability, relief of distress arising from floods, droughts, earthquakes, hailstorms, scarcity, locusts, epidemics and other such emergency situations and for temperance and prohibition, health and sanitation, welfare of tribal and harijan welfare;
   • (d) Communication and Works Committee — for communication, minor irrigation, rural housing, rural water supply, drainage and other public works;
   • (e) Cooperation and Industries Committee — for co-operation, thrift and small savings, cottage and rural industries, markets and statistics;
   • (f) Health, Women and Child Welfare Committee — for public health and sanitation, women and child welfare, public health engineering, rural water supply and drainage;
   • (g) Forest Committee — for social forestry, integrated wasteland development programme, national parks, development of minor forest produce and other forestry programmes.
2. (2) In addition to the five standing committees specified in sub-section (1), Janpad Panchayat or Zila Panchayat may, with the approval of the prescribed authority, constitute one or more such committees for such other items which are not specified in the said sub-section. (2-a) The item assigned to any committee under sub-section
3. (1) or sub-section
4. (2) may be re-assigned by the Janpad Panchayat or Zila Panchayat to any other such committee with the approval of the prescribed authority or may assign any item which is not otherwise specified to any such committee.
5. (3) The Chairmen of all the standing committees constituted under sub-section
6. (1) and subsection
7. (2) shall be the members of the General Administration Committee.
8. (4) Each committee except the General Administration Committee shall consist of at least five members who shall be elected by the members of the Janpad Panchayat or Zila Panchayat, as the case may be, from amongst themselves in such manner as may be prescribed: Provided that any committee may co-opt not more than two such persons who have experience or special knowledge of the items assigned to such committee; the persons so co-opted shall not have the right to vote in the proceedings of the committee: Provided further that the Education Committee shall have at least one woman and one person belonging to the Scheduled Castes or the Scheduled Tribes among its members. (4-a)
   • (a) Every member of the Legislative Assembly who is a member of the Janpad Panchayat shall be the ex-officio member of every committee of that Panchayat;
   • (b) Every member of Parliament who is a member of the Zila Panchayat shall be the ex-officio member of any two committees of his choice in that Panchayat; and
   • (c) Every committee of Zila Panchayat shall co-opt not more than two such members of Legislative Assembly who are members of that Panchayat, subject to the condition that no member of the Legislative Assembly shall be a member of more than two committees.
9. (5) Every committee except the General Administration Committee and Education Committee shall elect its Chairman from amongst its elected members within such time and in such manner as may be prescribed: Provided that —
   • (one) the Chairman of the Janpad Panchayat or Zila Panchayat, as the case may be, shall be the ex-officio Chairman of the General Administration Committee;
   • (two) the Vice-Chairman of the Janpad Panchayat or Zila Panchayat, as the case may be, shall be the ex-officio Chairman of the Education Committee; and (three) the Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the Zila Panchayat and Janpad Panchayat, as the case may be, shall not be a member of any other committee of which he is not the Chairman as a result of the proviso
   • (one) and proviso
   • (two) above.
10. (6) Every committee shall exercise such powers and perform such duties of the Janpad Panchayat or Zila Panchayat, as the case may be, as may be prescribed in relation to the items assigned to it.
11. (7) No person shall be a member of more than three such committees at the same time, other than the General Administration Committee.

Powers and duties of Sarpanch, Up-Sarpanch, President and Vice-President. — The Sarpanch and Up-Sarpanch and the President and Vice-President shall exercise such powers and perform such duties as may be prescribed.