Schedule II

(See section 130) Part I MATTERS IN RESPECT OF WHICH IT IS THE DUTY OF A TALUKA PANCHAYAT TO MAKE PROVISION. 1. In the sphere of sanitation and health- (a) controlling small-pox and other epidemics and expansion and maintenance of health services; (b) family planning; (c) providing facilities for pure drinking water; (d) maintenance and supervision of stores of drugs, dispensaries, pharmacies, maternity homes and primary health centres; (e) cultivating public opinion on following methods for the preservation of health and sanitation: (i) nourishment; (ii) maternity and child welfare; (iii) control and eradication of contagious diseases; (f) providing for help and protection to the people against epidemics. 2. In the sphere of communication- (a) construction and maintenance of village link roads- (b) providing necessary assistance for construction and maintenance of village approach roads. 3. In the spehere of education and culture— (a) establishment and maintenance of primary schools; (b) preparing and implementing the programme of constructing buildings for primary schools; (c) assisting educational activities of a village panchayat; (d) enforcing in the taluka the law relating to compulsory primary education; (e) conducting and encouraging libraries, reading rooms and other cultural activities; (f) assisting the propagation of pre-primary education. 4. In the sphere of social education— To cultivate a new outlook among the people to make them self-reliant, industrious and co-operation minded, and especially— (a) establishing and maintaining information centres, community educational centres and recreation centres; (b) establishing institutions for rendering social service such as youth clubs, women’s clubs and farmer’s associations and encouraging any such institutions if already established; (c) establishing a village defence corps; (d) encouraging physical and cultural activities; (e) establishing voluntary health associations; (j) training gram-sevaks and utilising their services; (g) training gram-laxmis and gram-sevikas and utilising their services; (h) promoting childrens’ activities. 5. In the sphere of community development— (a) planning for increased employment and production, as well as for co-ordiration of village institutions; (b) training in self-help and self-sufficiency among the village community on the principle of mutual co-operation; 1993 : Guj. 18] Gujarat Panchayats Act, 1993. 115 (c) utilising the surplus energy, resources and time of the village for benefit of the community; (d) providing for the implementation of development programmes entrusted to it by the State Government. 6. In the sphere of agricultural and irrigation— (a) planning for agricultural improvement in the taluka; (b) use of land and water resources and propagation of improved agricultural methods according to the latest researches; (c) construction and maintanance of irrigation works in the taluka; (d) reclamation and conservation of agricultural land in the taluka; (e) maintenance of seed multiplication farms, assisting registered seed producers and distribution of seeds in the taluka; (f) raising the production of fruits and vegetables; (g) conservation of manurial resources, preparing compost manure, organic manure and mixture and to arrange for making them easily available; (h) promoting the use of improved agricultural implements and arranging to make them easily available; (i) the protection of crops, fruit-trees and plants against disease; (j) establishment and management of model agricultural farms; (k) providing credit and other facilities for irrigation and agricultural development; (l) increasing the area of land under irrigation by construction and repairs of wells, digging and repairs of private ponds by undertaking minor irrigation works and by supervision of field channels; (m) increasing the use of sub-soil water by boring wells and giving assistance in regard to such wells; (n) providing for the timely and equitable distribution and full use of water, available under irrigation schemes. 7. In the sphere of animal husbandry— (a) improving cattle-breed by introduction of stud bulls, by castration of stray bullocks and establishment and maintaining artificial insemination centres; (b) introducing ‘improved breeds, of cattle, sheep, poultry, etc. giving grants therefor and maintenance of small breeding centres; (c) controlling and checking infectious diseases; (d) introducing improved grass and cattle-feeds and providing for their storage; (e) starting and maintaining first-aid centres and veterinary dispensaries; (f) providing for milk supply; (g) solving the problem of stray cattle. 8. In the sphere of village and small-scale industries— To promote, cottage village and small-scale industries with a view to providing increased employment and raising people’s standard of living and especially- (a) to establish and maintain production and training centres; (b) to improve the skills of artisans; (c) to popularise improved implements; (d) to ensure the implementation of scheme for Cottage, Village and Small- Scale Industries run by the Khadi and Village Industries Board and other All India Associations; (e) to establish industrial townships at the Taluka level; (f) to develop wool industry. 116 Gujarat Panchayats Act, 1993. [1993 : Guj. 18 9. In the sphere of co-operation— To promote the idea of Co-operation in different fields of life and to organise and encourage co-operative institutions in the economic and social fields and especially— (a) to establish and promote the development of multipurpose co-operative societies for credit, sale, industry, irrigation and agriculture; (b) promoting savings through thirft, small savings and insurance schemes. 10. In the sphere of women’s welfare— Implementing of schemes for women’s and children’s welfare and maintaining women’s and children’s welfare centres, education centres, craft centres and tailoring centres. 11. In the sphere of social welfare— (a) provision of hostels for students of backward classes and Scheduled Castes and Schedule Tribes; (b) implementing schemes of rural housing; (c) maintaining decrepit beggars; (d) sponsoring voluntary institutions of social welfare and co-ordinating and assisiting their activities; (e) propaganda for prohibition and against drug addiction. 12. In the sphere of relief— Providing immediate relief in cases of floods, fires, epidemics and other natural calamities on a small or large scale. 13. In the sphere of collection of statistics— Collecting anc co-ordinating statistics as may be required by the village panchayats, taluka panchayats or district panchayats or by the State Government. 14. In the sphere of trusts— Managing trusts in furtherance of the objects of any programme that may be carried out with the taluka fund. 15. In the sphere of forests— Promoting the development of village jungles and pastures. 16. In the sphere of rural housing— Development of village-sites with the co-operation of the village population and planning of rural housing. 17. In the sphere of information— (a) community radio listening programme; (b) arranging exhibitions; (c) publications. PART II (See section 130.) FUNCTIONS AND DUTIES OF A TALUKA PANCHAYAT It shall be the duty of a taluka panchayat— (a) to assist in conducting and revising educational surveys and in preparing and implementing Five Year Plan for the development of primary educational and all other educational activities entrusted to it; (b) to provide adequate accommodation and equipment for primary schools; (c) to open, with the sanction of the district panchayat, new primary schools in places where they are needed; (d) to determine the exact location of primary schools; (e) to supervise the working of all primary schools and of such other educational institutions under the control of the district panchayat as that panchayat may decide from time to time; 1993 : Guj. 18] Gujarat Panchayats Act, 1993. 117 (f) to exercise such powers over the staff employed in primary schools and other educational institutions under the control of the district panchayats as may be delegated to it from time to time; (g) to supervise the activities of the village panchayats within the jurisdisction of the taluka panchayats to ensure that each such panchayat pays its contribution to the School Funds, if any, and to bring cases of default to the notice of the Educational Inspector of the district and generally to guide them to maintain and improve the primary school or schools in their charge; (h) to be responsible for the enforcement of compulsory primary education; and, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provisions — (i) to determine on the recommendation of the competent officer of the district panchayat, the distance measured according to the nearest road between an approved school and the residence of the child for the purposes of the Bombay Primary Education Act, 1947; (ii) to grant, on the recommendation of the aforesaid competent officer, exemption from attending an approved school to a child who is receiving instruction otherwise than in an approved school, (i) to grant sanction to the changes in the dates of birth and the names of pupils attending primary schools; (j) to construct new buildings for primary schools and to carry out special repairs; (k) to sanction grants-in-aid to gram panchayats for their standing committee for Education; (l) to inform, and, if necessary to advise, the district panchayat, generally on all matters connected with primary education and other educational activities undertaken by the district panchayat in the taluka; (m) to carry on propaganda in the Taluka for the expansion and improvement of education in general and primary education in particular; and (n) to exercise such other powers and to perform such other duties as may be delegated to it by the district panchayat from time to time; (o) to hire building for primary schools with sanction of the taluka panchayat on reasonable rent, which shall be certified by the competent authority; (p) the supervision of individual primary schools; (q) to secure the enforcement of the Bombay Primary Education Act, 1947, and the rules or orders made thereunder.