FUNCTIONS OF GRAM PANCHAYATS

[See section 11(1)] (1) sanitation, conservancy and prevention and abatement of nuisance; (2) construction, repair and maintenance of public wells, ponds, tanks and conventional/traditional sources of water; (3) construction and maintenance of village paths, mule roads and rural roads, culverts, bridges and bunds which are not constructed or maintained by the Public Works Departments; (4) construction, maintenance and cleaning of public streets, latrines, drains, tanks, wells and other public places; (5) regulating the construction of buildings, latrines, urinals, drains and water closets; (6) collection and disposal of refuse and earmarking places for dumping of refuse; (7) filling of disused wells, in sanitary ponds, pools, ditches and pits and conversion of step wells into sanitary wells; (8) lighting of village streets and other public places; (9) removing of obstructions and projections in public streets or places and in sites not being private property or which are open to use of public, whether such sites are vested in the Panchayat or belong to the State Government; (10) management of public land and management and development of village site, grazing lands and other lands vested in or under the control of the Gram Panchayat; (11) maintenance of ancient and historical monuments other than those declared by or under law made by Parliament to be of national importance; (12) maintenance of Gram Panchayat property; (13) plantation and preservation of Panchayat Forests; (14) regulating places for disposal of dead bodies, carcasses and other offensive matters; (15) disposal of unclaimed corpuses and carcasses; (16) regulation of sale and preservation of meat; (17) establishment and management of cattle ponds and maintenance of records relating to cattle; (18) establishment, management and regulation of markets and fairs; and (19) maintenance of records of births, deaths and marriages.