Bare Act

The Manipur Panchayati Raj (Seventh Amendment) Act, 2012

This legislation regulates rural local governance in Manipur, India, applying to the state's rural residents and local governing bodies. It adjusts the population criteria for establishing village assemblies, setting the requirement to between three thousand and twelve thousand residents. Additionally, it increases the population ratio represented by each elected member in village and district councils, raising the ratio from six hundred to nine hundred for village representatives and from eighteen thousand to twenty-two thousand for district representatives. This matters because it directly alters democratic representation in rural Manipur, reducing the density of elected officials relative to the population.

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