Bare Act
The Dissolution of Osmanabad and Parbhani Zilla Parishads and Temporary and of Elections Act, 1980
This 1980 Maharashtra legislation was an emergency administrative measure enacted to dissolve the Zilla Parishads (district councils) of Osmanabad and Parbhani. The Act effectively removed all elected councillors and committee members from office on September 26, 1980, and replaced them with government-appointed administrators. Its primary purpose was to suspend the democratic functioning of these specific local bodies and postpone general elections for a defined period. For an ordinary citizen, this meant that local governance and decision-making authority shifted from elected representatives to state-appointed officials, temporarily altering the local administrative hierarchy and the timeline for electing new district leadership.
- 1. Short title and commencement
- 2. Definitions
- 3. Dissolution of Osmanabad and Parbhani Zilla Parishads and appointment of administrators
- 4. Temporary postponement of elections
- 5. Arrangements to be made to reconstitute Zilla Parishads and Panchayat Samitis
- 6. Application of Mah. V of
- 7. Removal of difficulties
- 8. Repeal of Mah. Ord. VIII of 1980 and saving
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