Functions of Janpad Panchayat

Functions of Janpad Panchayat —

1. (1) Subject to the provisions of this Act and the rules made thereunder and such general or special orders as may be issued by the State Government from time to time, it shall be the duty of the Janpad Panchayat to make reasonable provision for the following matters within the Block, in so far as the Janpad Panchayat fund allows :—
   • (a) Integrated Rural Development, Agriculture, Social Forestry, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries, Health and Sanitation, Adult Education, Communication and Public Works, Co-operation, Cottage Industries, Women & Youth Welfare, Welfare of the disabled and destitute and Welfare of the backward classes, Family Planning and Sports and Rural Employment Programmes;
   • (b) Providing emergency relief in cases of fire, flood, drought, earthquake, epidemic, locusts and other natural calamities;
   • (c) Arrangement in connection with local pilgrimages and festivals;
   • (d) Management of public ferries;
   • (e) Management of public markets, public fairs and exhibitions; and
   • (f) Any other function, with the approval of State Government or Zila Panchayat. (1-a) Subject to the provisions of this Act and the rules made thereunder and such policies, directions, instructions, general or special orders as may be issued by the State Government from time to time, it shall be the duty of the Janpad Panchayat —
   • (one) To prepare annual plans for economic development and social justice of the Panchayat area and to submit them to the Zila Panchayat within the prescribed time for inclusion in the Zila Panchayat plan;
   • (two) to [omit]; (three) to prepare the plans for works and development schemes to be taken up from the Janpad Panchayat fund;
   • (four) to take up regional plans and infrastructural development within the Janpad Panchayat;
   • (five) to approve the works of development schemes from the Panchayat fund, to supervise, monitor and manage them and to spend from the Panchayat fund for this purpose;
   • (six) to ensure the execution of such schemes, works, programmes and projects which are entrusted to the Panchayats by Central or State Government or Zila Panchayat as per law; (seven) to implement, execute, supervise, monitor and manage such works, schemes, programmes and projects as are transferred to the Panchayats by the State Government, through Gram Panchayat or through implementing agencies; (eight) to recommend to Zila Panchayats for consideration of such works of schemes which can be started in the block by the Zila Panchayat and to indicate the extent to which local resources can be available for such works or schemes;
   • (nine) to establish coordination between Gram Panchayats within the block and guide them;
   • (ten) to ensure execution of such plans, projects, schemes or other works which are common to two or more Gram Panchayats in the block; (eleven) in respect of transferred schemes, works and projects, re-allocate the funds made available by the Central or State Government or Zila Panchayat to the Gram Panchayat as per the norms prescribed by the Central or State Government or Zila Panchayat, as the case may be; (twelve) to take all necessary steps to mobilize resources by exercising the powers entrusted by law or by Central or State Government; (thirteen) to exercise such other powers and perform such other functions as may be entrusted to it by the State Government.
2. (2) The Janpad Panchayat shall control and supervise the administration of the Community Development Block or Tribal Development Block, as the case may be, within its jurisdiction and the execution of the functions and schemes entrusted by the State Government to such blocks shall be done by the Janpad Panchayat under the superintendence, direction and control of the Janpad Panchayat in accordance with such instructions as may be issued by the State Government from time to time.