section 9
Constitution of Village Panchayats
The Gujarat Panchayats Act, 1961Infrastructure196329 sections
Statutory text
- (1) A village panchayat shall consist of such number of members as provided in sub-section (4);
- (2) The members of a village panchayat shall be elected from amongst the qualified voters of the village; (3)
- (a) A village Panchayat shall have a Sarpanch and an Upa-Sarpanch.
- (b) The Sarpanch shall be elected by ballot by the qualified voters of the village from amongst themselves.
- (c) The Upa-Sarpanch shall be elected by the members of the village panchayat from amongst themselves.
- (4) A village panchayat of a village having population not exceeding three thousand shall consist of seven members and in case of a village panchayat where the population of the village exceeds three thousand, than for every one thousand or part thereof in excess of three thousand, the said number of seven shall be increased by two. (5)(a)(i) Seats shall be reserved by the State Government for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes in every village panchayat in the State and the number of seats so reserved shall bear, as nearly as may be, the same proportion to the total number of seats in that panchayat as the population of the Scheduled Castes in the village or as the case may be of the Scheduled Tribes in that village bears to the total population of that village, and such seats shall be allotted by the State Election Commission by rotation to different wards in that village in the prescribed manner.
- (ii) Where in a village there is in the opinion of the State Government population of socially and educationally backward classes, there shall be reserved by the State Government for the socially and educationally backward classes one tenth of the total number of seats in a village panchayat and such seats shall be allotted by the State Election Commission by rotation to different wards in that village in the prescribed manner.
- (b) One third of the total number of seats reserved under clause
- (a) shall, be reserved by the State Government for women belonging to the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes or, as the case may be, the socially and educationally backward classes.
- (c) One third (including the number of seats reserved for women belonging to the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes and the socially and educationally backward classes) of the total number of seats in a village panchayat shall be reserved by the State Government for women and such seats shall be allotted by the State Election Commission by rotation to different wards in the village in the prescribed manner.
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