Meeting of Gram Sabha

Meeting of Gram Sabha -

1. (1) The meeting of the Gram Sabha shall be held at least in January, April, July and October and in addition to this the Gram Sabha, if required, may call for additional meetings and the Collector of the District shall nominate a Government officer or employee for the proper arrangements of such meetings who will ensure that the agenda of the meeting is circulated and information regarding the date, time and place is served in time and will also ensure the proper conduct of the proceedings of the meeting.
2. (2) For every meeting of the Gram Sabha, the quorum shall be of members not less than one-tenth of the total number of members of the Gram Sabha or at least five hundred members of the Gram Sabha, whichever is less.
3. (3) The meeting of the Gram Sabha shall be presided over by the Sarpanch or in the absence of the Sarpanch by the Upsarpanch. In the event where both the Sarpanch and Upsarpanch are absent, the meeting of the Gram Sabha shall be presided over by such member of the Gram Sabha who is chosen for that purpose by the members present in the meeting.
4. (4) If any dispute arises in this regard whether any person is entitled to be present in the meeting of the Gram Sabha, then the decision of such dispute shall be taken by the presiding person keeping in view the entries in the electoral roll of the Gram Sabha area and his decision shall be final.
5. (5) Any dispute arising between Gram Sabhas or any matter related to more than one Gram Sabha included in the Gram Panchayat area and all matters included in sub-section
6. (2) of Section 7 shall be brought before the joint meeting of all Gram Sabhas of that Gram Panchayat.
7. (6) The decision taken in the joint meeting under sub-section
8. (5) shall be deemed to be the decision taken by each Gram Sabha.