Obligatory duties of Gram Panchayat

Subject to such conditions as may be prescribed, it shall be the duty of every Gram Panchayat, so far as its funds may allow, to make reasonable provisions with in the area under its jurisdiction for--- (a) Sanitation, conservancy and the prevention of public nuisances; (b) curative and preventive measure in respect of malaria, small pox, cholera or any other epidemic diseases; (c) supply of drinking water and the cleaning of public streets and protection therof ; (d) the maintenance, repair and construction of public streets and protection thereof; (e) the removal of encroachments of public streets or public places; (f) the protection and repair of buildings and other property vested in it; (g) the management and care of public tanks, common grazing grounds, burning ghats and public graveyards; (h) the supply of any local information which the District Magistrate, the Zilla Parishad, the Panchayat Samity or the Sub-Divisional Officer, within the local limits of whose jurisdiction the Gram Panchayat is situated, may require; (i) Organising voluntary labour for community works for the upliftment of its area; (j) the control and administration of the Gram Panchayat Fund establishment under this Act; (k) the imposition, assessment and collection of the taxes, rates or fees leviable under this Act; and (l) the performance of such functions as may be transferred to it under Section 31 of the Cattle Trespass Act, 1871. (1) A Gram Panchayat shall perform the following functions assigned to it: (c) management of any public and markets which are not declared as regulated markets under any law for the time being in force; (d) irrigation including minor irrigation, water management and water shed development; (e) grow more food campaign; (f) care of the infirm and the destitute; (g) rehabilitation of displaced persons; (h) improved breeding of cattle, medical treatment of cattle and prevention of cattle disease; (i) acting as a channel through which Government assistance should reach the villages; (j) bringing waste land under cultivation through improvement of land and soil conservation; (k) promotion of village plantation, social forestry and farm forestry; (l) arranging cultivation of land lying fallow; (m) arranging co-operative management of land and other resources of the villages; (n) assisting in the implementation of land reform measure in its area; (o) implementation of such schemes as may be formulated or performance of such acts as may be entrusted; (p) filed publicity on matters connected with development works and other welfare measures undertaken by the State Government; (q) supervision of supply of food and essential commodities through ration shops; (r) minor forest produce; (s) rural housing programme; (t) rural electrification including distribution of electricity; (u) non-conventional energy sources; (v) family welfare, and women and child development; (w) welfare of the weaker sections and in particular of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes; (x) maintenance of community assets; (y) public distribution system; and (z) poverty alleviation programme. (2) If the State Government is of the opinion that a Gram Panchayat has persistently made default in the performance of any of the functions assigned to it under sub-section (1) the State Government may, after recording its reason, withdraw such function from such Gram Panchayat.