Schedule I

(see Section 99) MATTERS IN RESPECT OF WHICH IT IS THE DUTY OF VILLAGE PANCHAYATS TO MAKE PROVISION. 1. In the sphere of sanitation and health— (a) supply of water for domestic use and for cattle; (b) construtcion and cleaning of public roads, drains, ponds tanks and wells other than tanks and wells used for irrigation purposes and other public places; (c) sanitation, conservancy, the prevention and abatement of nuisance; (d) preservation and improvement of public health, establishing and maintaining public hospitals and dispensaries providing public relief; (e) regulation by licensing or otherwise of tea, coffee and milk shops; (f) provision, maintenance and regulation of burning and burial grounds; (g) ensuring systematic disposal of carcasses, provision of definite place for the purpose and other means for the disposal of unclaimed corpses and carcasses; (h) construction and maintenance of public latrines; (i) taking of measures to prevent the outbreak, spread and recurrence of any infections disease; (j) reclaiming of unheathy localities; (k) removal of rubbish heaps, jungle growth, prickly pear, the filling in of disused wells, insanitary ponds, pools, ditches, pits or hollows, the prevention of water logging in irrigated areas and other improvements of sanitary conditions; (l) maternity and child welfare; (m) the encouragement of human and animal vaccination; (n) the provision and maintenance of compost pits; (o) regulating the keeping of cattle and taking necessary steps against stray cattlies and dogs; (p) regulating, checking and abating of offensive or dangerous trade or practices; (q) watering public streets and places; (r) cleaning public streets, places and sewers, and all spaces not being private property, which are open to the enjoyment of the public, whether such places are vested in the panchayat or not; removing the noxious vegetation, and abating all public nuisances; (s) extinguishing fires, and protecting life and property when fires occur; (t) removing obstruction and projections in public streets or places, and in spaces not being private property, which are open to the enjoyment of the public, whether such spaces are vested in the panchayat or belong to Government; (u) securing or removing dangerous buildings or places; (v) constructing, altering and maintaining public streets, culverts, panchayat boundary marks, markets, slaughter-houses, latrines, privies urinals, drains, sewers, drainage works, sewage work, baths, washing places, drinking fountains, tanks, wells, dams and the like; (w) obtaining a supply of an additional supply of water, proper and sufficient for preventing danger to the health of the inhabitants from the insufficiency or unwholesomeness of the existing supply when such supply or additional supply can be obtained at a reasonable cost; (x) paying the salary and the contingent expenditure on account of such police or guards as may be required by the panchayats for the purposes of this Act or for the protection of any panchayat property; (y) constructing and maintaining residential quarters for the conservancy staff of the panchayat; 1993 : Guj. 18] Gujarat Panchayats Act, 1993. 111 (z) giving relief and establishing and maintaining relief works in time of famine or scarcity to or for destitute persons within the limits of the Panchayat. 2. In the sphere of public works- (a) removing of obstructions and projections in public streets or places and in sites, not being private property, which are open to the public whether such sites are vested in the panchayat or belong to Government; (b) construction, maintenance and repair of public roads, drains, bunds and bridges : Provided that if the roads, drains, bunds and bridges vest in any other public authority, such works shall not be undertaken without the consent of that authority; (c) maintenance and regulation of the use of buildings handed over to the panchayat or of Government buildings under the control of the panchayat, grazing lands, forest land including lands assigned under section 28 of the Indian Forest Act, 1927 and tanks and wells (other than tanks and wells of irrigation); (d) lighting of the village; (e) control of fairs, bazars, tonga-stand and carts stands; (f) construction and maintenance or control of slaughter houses; (g) planting of trees in market places and other public places and their maintenance and preservation; (h) construction and maintenance of Dharmashalas; (i) management and control of bathing and washing ghats which are not managed by any authority; (j) establishment and maintenance of markets; (k) construction and maintenance of houses for conservancy staff and village functionaries of the panchayat; (l) provision and maintenance of camping grounds; (m) establishment, control and management of cattle pounds; (n) establishment and maintenance of works for the provision of employment particularly in times of scracity; (o) extension of village sites and the regulation of buildings and housing schemes in accourdance with such principles as may be prescribed; (p) construction and maintenance of buildings for warehouses, shops, purchasing centres and such others; (q) construction and maintenance of buildings for common use and of buildings necessary for development activities; (r) generation, distribution and supply of electrical energy and other matters connected therewith. 3. In the sphere of education and culture- (a) spread of education; (b) establishment and maintenance of akhada, parks, clubs and other places of recreation for the welfare of women and youth; (c) establishment and maintenance of theaters for promotion of art and culture; (d) establishment and maintenace of libraries and reading rooms; (e) promotion of social and moral welfare of the village including prohibition, propaganda, removal or untouchahility, amelioration of the condition of the backward classes, the eradication of corruption and the discouragement of gambling and other anti-social activities; (f) assisting me introduction of compulsory primary education as planned by the State; (g) provision of school-buildings and of necessary equipment for education; (h) pre-primary education and child-welfare activities; XVI of 1927. 112 Gujarat Panchayats Act, 1993. [1993 : Guj. 18 (i) repairs and maintenance of school buildings; (j) maintenance of school funds; (k) offering financial assistance to needy students; (l) celebration of school functions and festivals; (m) arranging cultural programmes for the purposes of popular of education; (n) provision for light meals for school children, if possible; (o) establishment, construction and maintenance of secondary schools. 4. In the sphere of self-defence aid village defence,— (a) watch and ward of the village and of crops threin and raising volunteer organisations or organisations of any other kind, encouraging and assisting such organisations; (b) providing for training facilities to the youth of the gram for the purpose of self-defence and villages defence and assisting such training that may be oraganised by the Government; (c) preventing of fires, rendering assistance in extinguishing fires and protecting life and property when fire occurs; 5. In the sphere or planning and administration- (a) the preparation of plans for the development of the village; (b) assisting the implementation of soil improvement projects of the State Government; (c) economic survey of the gram accompanied by the provision of employment to the unemployed or under employed residents thereof; (d) preparation of budget, collection and maintenance of accounts, custody and utilization of funds, assessment and collection of taxes and maintenance of an Account Code; (e) use of assistance given by the Central or State Government for any purpose of the village; (f) making independent surveys of the gram or assisting such surveys under taken by the Central or State Government; (g) recruitment, training and management of staff to be employed by panchayat; (h) control of cattle-stands, thrashing floors, grazing grounds and community lands; (i) establishment, maintenance and regulation of fairs, pilgrimages and festivals; (j) reporting to proper authorities complaints which are not removable by the panchayat; (k) preparation, maintenance and up-keep of the panchayat records; (l) registration of births, deaths and marriages in such manner and in such form as may be laid down by the State Government by general or special order in this behalf; (m) numbering of premises. 6. In the sphere of Community Development- (a) relief of the crippled, destitute and the sick; (b) assistance to the residents when any natural calamity occurs; (c) organising, encouraging and assisting co-operative activities in the economic and social fields; (d) propagation of family planning; (e) organising voluntary labour for community works and works for the upliftment of the village; (f) opening fair-price shops. 1993 : Guj. 18] Gujarat Panchayats Act, 1993. 113 7. In the sphere of agriculture, preservation of forests and pasture lands- (a) planned improvement of agriculture; (b) securing minimum standards of cultivation in the gram with a view to increasing agricultural production; (c) establishment and management of model agricultural farm; (d) the establishment and maintenance of granaries; (e) bringing under cultivation waste and fallow lands vested by the State Government in the panchayat; (f) ensuring conservation of manurial resources, preparing composts and sale of manure; (g) production of improved seeds, the establishing of nurseries of improved seeds and promoting the use of improved seeds; (h) promoting the use of improved agricultural implements and making such implements easily available; (i) the promotion of co-operative farming; (j) crop-protection and crop-experiments; (k) minor irrigation, construction and maintenance of filled channels and distribution of water; (l) raising preservation and improvement of village forests, pastures and orchards; (m) taking steps against harmful animals with a view to protection of crops. 8. In the sphere of Animal Husbandary- (a) improvement of cattle and cattle-breeding; (b) the general care of live-stock; (c) providing and maintaining stud bulls for purposes of cattle breeding; (d) promotion of dairy farming. 9. In the sphere of village Industries- (a) surveying and harnessing industrial and employment potential of the gram; (b) promoting hand-spinning, hand-weaving, dying, printing, embroidery, sewing, oil pressing industry, leather-industry, pottery, carpentry, smithy, industries processing agricultural raw materials into finished products, other cottage industries and special arts or craft of the village, if any, and protecting, encouraging and assisting these with a view to improving and develop them; (c) providing necessary raw materials for cottage industries and arts and crafts; (d) making efforts for the production by the village craftsmen of modern and improved tools for cottage industries and making such tools easily available to them; (e) encouraging and assisting artisans for training in cottage industries and handicraft; (f) providing for the organisation, management and development of cottge industries on a co-operative basis. 10. In the sphere of collection of land revenue- (a) collection of land revenue, when so empowered by the State Government under section 168; (b) maintenance of records relating to land revenue in such manner and in such form as may be prescribed from time to time by or under any law relating to land revenue. 114 Gujarat Panchayats Act, 1993. [1993 : Guj. 18