Provided that offices reserved under this sub-section shall be allotted by the Election Commission by rotation to different Gram Panchayats in such manner as may be prescribed.

GRAM P ANCHAYAT AND ELEC TIONS 12. (1) As soon as may be, after its constitution , every Gram Sabha shall elect by direct election an Executive Committee called the Gram Panchayat and a Chairperson of that Committee to be known as the Sarpanch.

1. (2) A Gram Panchayat shall, consist of such number of seats , including the Sarpanch not being less than nine or more than fifteen , as the Director Panchayat may, with prior approval of the Administrator notify.
2. (3) The ratio between the population of the territorial area of a Gram Panchayat and the number of seats in that Panchayat to be filled by election shall , so far as practicable, be the same throughout the Union territory.
3. (4) Each Gram Panchayat area shall be divided by the Election Commission into territorial constituencies in such manner that the ratio between the population of each constituency and the number of seats allotted to it shall , so far as practicable , be the same throughout the Gram Panchayat area.
4. (5) Seats shall be reserved for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes in every Gram Panchayat and the number of seats so reserved shall bear , as nearly as may be, the same proportion to the total number of seats to be filled by direct election in the Gram Panchayat as the population of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes in that Gram Functions of Gram Sabha. Supervisory Committees of Gram Sabha Constitution of Gram Panchayats. Person qualified to vote and be elected. EXTRAORDINARY No. : 32 DATED : 17T" AUGUST, 2012. Panchayat area bears to the total population of that area and such seats shall be a ! loned by the Election Commission by rotation to different constituencies in a Gram Panchayat, in such manner as may be prescribed: Provided that no such reservation shall be necessary if the total population of the Scheduled Castes or the Scheduled Tribes in a Gram Panchayat is less than half the proportionate population required to fill one seat.
5. (6) Not less than one - half of the total number of the seats reserved under sub - section (5), shall be reserved for women belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes.
6. (7) Not less than one-half ( including the number of seats reserved for women belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes ) of the total nwnber of seats to be filled by direct election in every Gram Panchayat shall be reserved for women and such seats may be allotted by the Election Commission by rotation to different constituencies in a Gram Panchayat

, in such manner as may be prescribed.

1. (8) The number of seats to be reserved under sub - sections(6) and( 7), shall be determined by the Administrator , by an order published in the Official Gazette.
2. (9) The Administrator shall reserve-
   • (a) the number of offices of Sarpanch in the Gram Panchayats for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes which shall bear , as nearly as may be, the same proportion to the total number of such offices in the Gram Panchayats as the population of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes in the area of Union territory to which this Regulation extends bears to the total population of such area;
   • (b) not less than one-half of the total number of offices ofSarpanch in the Gram Panchayats for women:

1. (1) Every member of Gram Sabha shall , unless disqualified under this Regulation or any other law for the time being in force , be qualified to vote at an election to the Gram Panchayat or at a meeting of the Gram Sabha.
2. (2) Every member of a Gram Sabha shall, unless disqualified under this Regulation or under any other law for the time being in force, be qualified to be elected to fill up a seat in the Gram Panchayat as a member or as its Sarpanch or as both: Provided that if a person is elected to both the offices of a member as well as Sarpanch, he shall resign either of the two offices within a period of fourteen days from the date of the publication of the result in the Official Gazette, failing which his seat in the Gram Panchayat shall become vacant.
3. (3) The vacancy caused by the result of such resignation, shall be filled by holding a bye-election for the purpose.