Chapter III Chapter III

Duties of Gram Panchayat

Subject to any general or special direction of the State Government the duties of a Gram Panchayat shall be to provide within the area under its jurisdiction for~

1. (a) sanitation, conservancy and drainage and the prevention of public nuisance;
2. (b) curative and preventive measures in respect of any infectious disease;
3. (c) supply of drinking water and the cleaning and disinfecting the sources of supply and storage of water;
4. (d) maintenance, repair and construction of village roads and protection thereof;
5. (e) the removal of encroachments of village roads or public places;
6. (f) the management of common grazing grounds, burning places and public graveyards;
7. (g) the supply of any local information which the District Collector or Deputy Development Officer-cum-Planning Officer or the Zilla Panchayat, within the local limits of whose jurisdiction the Gram Panchayat is situate, may require;
8. (h) organizing voluntary Labour for community work and works for the upliftment of its areas;
   • (i) control and administration of the Gram Panchayat Fund established under this Act;
9. (j) the imposition, assessment and collection of taxes, fees or rates leviable under this Act;
10. (k) construction and maintenance of dharmasalas;

1. (1) regulating places for the disposal of dead bodies and carcasses and other offensive matters;
   • (m) assisting the development of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, poultry, fisheries, village and cottage industries and co-operative;
   • (n) registering births, deaths and marriages and annually submitting such records to the Zilla Panchayat;
   • (o) maintenance of such records relating to cattle census, population census, crop census and census of unemployed persons and such other statistics as may be required and annually submitting such records to the Zilla Panchayat;
   • (p) regulating inflow of animals within the area and their transfer;
   • (q) destruction and disposal of ownerless and rabid dogs and disposal of unclaimed animals;
   • (r) maintenance, upkeep and supervision of any building or other property which may be entrusted to it by the State Government for management; assisting the Zilla Panchayat in preparing development plan of its area;
   • (t) rendering assistance in extinguishing fire and protecting life and property when fire occurs;
   • (u) any other local work or service of public utility which is likely to promote the health, comfort, convenience or material prosperity of the public not otherwise provided for in this Act;
     • (v) such other duties as may be entrusted to it by the State Government from time to time.

(1) A Gram Panchayat shall also perform such other functions as the State Government may assign to it in respect of:

1. (a) primary, social, technical or vocational education;
2. (b) rural dispensaries, health centers, and maternity and child welfare centers;
3. (c) minor irrigation;
4. (d) grow more food campaign;
5. (e) care of the infirm and destitute;
6. (f) rehabilitation of displaced persons;
7. (g) improved breeding of cattle; medical treatment of cattle and prevention of cattle disease;
8. (h) its acting, as a channel through which Government assistance should reach the residents of the Gram;
   • (i) bringing private waste land under cultivation;
9. (j) promotion of plantations in the gram; arranging for cultivation of land lying fallow;
10. (k) arranging for co-operative management of resources of the Gram;
11. (m) implementation of such schemes as may be formulated or performance of such acts as may be entrusted to it by the State Government;
12. (n) field publicity of matters connected with development works and other welfare measures undertaken by the State Government;
13. (o) regulation of fairs, melas, hats and exhibition of local produce and products of local handicrafts and home industries;
14. (p) assisting and advising the residents of the Gram in the matter of obtaining state loan and its distribution and repayment;
15. (q) assisting in the implementation of land reform measure in its area;
16. (r) the promotion and encouragement of education including adult education; such other functions which the State Government may, from time to time, by order in writing entrust to such Gram Panchayat which in its opinion to promote directly or indirectly the welfare of the public. (2) If the State Government is of opinion that a Gram Panchayat has persistently made default in the performances of any of the functions assigned to it under sub-section (1), the State Government may, after recording its reasons, withdraw such functions from such Gram Panchayat. (3) Where the State Government assigns any functions to a Gram Panchayat under sub. section (I), it shall place such funds at the disposal of the Gram Panchayat as may be required for the due performance of such function.