The Uttar Pradesh District Planning Committee (Amendment) Act, 2024

This Act may be called the Uttar Pradesh District Planning Committee (Amendment) Act, 2024.

In the Uttar Pradesh District Planning Committee Act, 1999, for the existing sub-section (4) of section 6, the following sub-section shall be substituted, namely :-

"(4) Members of Council of States representing the State shall also be permanent invitee to the meetings of the Committee of a district of their choice. Besides this, the Gram Pradhan of two Gram Panchayats of a district shall also be permanent invitee to the meeting of District Planning Committee for one year. The selection of Gram Pradhan shall be done in the following manner:-

(a) Two Gram Pradhans selected by the District Magistrate according to the process given below shall be permanent invitees for the meetings of the District Planning Committee of the concerned district for one year by rotation.

(b) The rotation cycle for selection of Gram Pradhans will run as follows:-

(i) The District Magistrate shall select two Development Blocks on the basis of Hindi alphabetical order every year and two Gram Panchayats having highest population shall be selected. The Gram Pradhan of each of the Gram Panchayats so selected from each of the two Development Blocks would be selected/nominated for one year. At the expiry of one year from their nomination, the next two Development Blocks as per Hindi alphabetical order would be selected in place of earlier selected blocks. The District Magistrate shall select/nominate two Gram Panchayats having the largest population in these blocks for a period of one year on rotation basis.

(ii) The aforesaid procedure shall continue to be followed for the upcoming years till such time as all the Development Blocks have been selected as per Hindi alphabetical order and one full cycle has been completed. Thereafter, the aforesaid shall be repeated and a Gram Pradhan of a Gram Panchayat from each of the next selected two Development Blocks shall be selected/nominated.

(iii) If there is change in population of the Development Blocks due to any reason or delineation of their boundaries, even then formerly selected Development Blocks/Gram Panchayats shall not be repeated (except when the rotational cycle is complete)."