Procedure of meeting

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.