RESPONSIBHILITIES UPON PANCHAYATS WITH RESPECT TO DEVELOPMENT PLANS AND IMPLEMENTATION OF CERTAIN SCHEMES.

1. (1) Every village panchayat shall prepare every year in such form as may be prescribed a development plan for the village for the next year and submit the same before such date as may be prescribed, to the taluka panchayat to which the village panchayat is subordinate.
2. (2) Every taluka panchayat shall prepare every year in such form as may be prescribed a development plan for the taluka for the next year having regard to the development plans submitted to it by the village panchayats in the taluka and submit the same before such date as may be prescribed, to the district panchayat to which the taluka panchayat is subordinate.
3. (3) Every District panchayat shall prepare every year in such form as may be prescribed a development plan for the district for the next year having regard to the development plans submitted to it by the taluka panchayats in the district, and submit the same before such date as may be prescribed, to such authority as the State Government may, by order in writing specify: Explanation : For the purposes of this section a development plan means a development plan for economic development and social justice in relation to matters with respect to which the executive power vests in the State Government.

180. (1)(a) Notwithstanding anything contained in any law for the time being in force,

the State Government may subject to such conditions as it may think fit to impose entrust by an order published in the Official Gazette to a district panchayat implementation of such schemes of economic development and social justice as it thinks fit: Provided that no scheme shall be so entrusted unless-

1. (i) it is competent to the State Government to implement the scheme in exercise of its executive power, and
2. (ii) the scheme appears to the State Government to be pertaining to the district.

1. (b) Where the State Government entrusts a scheme under clause (a) to a district panchayat, it shall allot to the district panchayat such fund and personnel as may be necessary to enable the district panchayat to implement the scheme. Withdrawal of powers, functions etc. from distict panchayat. Preperation of Development plans by panchayat. Entrustment of schemes to panchayats for implementation.

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1. (2) Without prejudice to the generality of the provisions of sub-se tion (1) the State

Government may entrust to a district panchayat schemes for ecnomic development and

social justice in relation to the following matters, namely:—

1. (1) Agriculture, including agricultural extension.
2. (2) Land Improvement, implementation of land reforms, land consolidation and soil conservation.
3. (3) Minor irrigation, water management and watershed development.
4. (4) Animal husbandry dairying and poultry.
5. (5) Fisheries.
6. (6) Social forestry and farm forestry.
7. (7) Minor forest produce.
8. (8) Small scale industries, including food processing industries.
9. (9) Khadi, village and cottage industries.
10. (10) Rural housing.
11. (11) Drinking water.
12. (12) Fuel and fodder.
13. (13) Roads, culverts, bridges, ferries, waterways and other means of communication.
14. (14) Rural electrification, including distribution of electricity.
15. (15) Non-conventional energy sources.
16. (16) Poverty alleviation programme.
17. (17) Education including primary and secondary schools.
18. (18) Technical training and vocational education.
19. (19) Adult and non-formal education.
20. (20) Libraries.
21. (21) Cultural activities.
22. (22) Markets and fairs.
23. (23) Health and sanitation, including hospitals, primary health centres and dispensaries.
24. (24) Family welfare.
25. (25) Women and child development.
26. (26) Social welfare, including welfare of the handicapped and mentally retarded.
27. (27) Welfare of the weaker sections, and in particular of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes.
28. (28) Public distribution system.
29. (29) Maintenance of community assets.
30. (3) The district panchayat shall if the State Government so directs, and may with the previous approval of the State Government, entrust to a taluka panchayat subordinate to it any scheme entrusted to it under sub-sections (1) and (2) and allot to such panchayat such fund and personnel as may be necessary to enable the panchayat to implement the scheme so entrusted.
31. (4) The matters in respect of which the scheme is entrusted to the district panchayat under sub-section (1) or (2) or to a taluka panchayat under sub-section (3) shall be deemed to be included in the relevant Panchayat Functions List.

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