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In this Act- "Village" includes a town with a population not exceeding ten thousand inhabitants according to the last census; also any recognised sub-division of a village or of such a town; "Gram Panchayat" means,- (a) in the case of municipality, the Municipal Committee; (b) in the case of a notified area, the Notified Area Committee ; (c) in the case of a small town, the Small Town Committee; and (d) in the case of any other village, the Gram Panchayat constituted under the Himachal Pradesh Panchayati Raj Act, 1968 (Act No. 19 of 1968) for such village.