Composition and strength of a commune panchayat council

Composition and strength of a commune panchayat council.– A commune panchayat council constituted for a commune panchayat shall consist of ---

1. (i) such number of seats in a commune panchayat council, as may be notified by the Director, to be filled by persons chosen by direct election from territorial constituencies in the commune panchayat: Provided that the ratio between the population of the territorial area of a commune panchayat council and the number of seats in such council to be filled by election shall, so far as practicable, be the same throughout the Union territory: Provided further that each commune panchayat shall be divided by the Government into territorial constituencies in such manner that the ratio between the population of each constituency and the number of seats allotted to it shall, as far as practicable, be the same throughout the commune panchayat;
2. (ii) Presidents of all village panchayats in the commune Panchayat;
3. (iii) one non-official member of each township committee in the commune panchayat chosen in the prescribed manner;
4. (iv) the member of the House of the People and the members of the Legislative Assembly of the Union territory representing constituencies which comprises wholly or partly a commune panchayat; and
5. (v) the member of the Council of States registered as an elector within the commune panchayat: Provided that the chairperson of a village panchayat and other members of a commune panchayat council, whether or not chosen by direct election from territorial constituencies in a commune panchayat, shall have the right to vote in the meetings of the commune panchayat council].