The West Bengal Panchayat Act, 1973 - MGNREGA Jalpaiguri, Home

any service, work or thing under the control of the Gram Panchayat, Panchayat Samiti or
Zilla Parishad;
(c) require, for the purposes of inspection or examination, the Gram Panchayat,
Panchayat Samiti or Zilla Parishad—
(i) to produce any book, record, correspondence, plan or other document, or
(ii) to furnish any return, plan, estimate, statement, accounts or statistics, or
(iii) to furnish or obtain any report or information.
(3) The Divisional Commissioner or any other officer not below the rank of a '[Joint
Block Development Officer of The Block] when authorised by the State Government in
this behalf, may exercise all or any of the powers conferred on an inspecting officer under
sub-section (2).
(4) When an inspection of a Gram Panchayat, Panchayat Samiti or Zilla Parishad is
undertaken by any officer referred to in sub-section (3), a report of such inspection shall
be submitted by such officer to the State Government.
206. The State Government may, by notification, delegate, subject to such conditions as it
may specify all or any of its powers under this Act except the powers mentioned in
section 224 to any person or authority subordinate to it.
Delegation.
1 206A. (1)
2 As soon as may be after the commencement of the West Bengal
Panchayat (Amendment) Act, 1994, and thereafter at the expiry of every five
years, there shall be a Finance Commission constituted by the Governor, by
notification, under clause (1) of article 243-1 of the Constitution of India which
shall consist of not more than five members including the Chairman, selected
from amongst the jurists, economists, administrators and social and political
workers of eminence.
(2) The Finance Commission shall review the financial position of the
3 [Panchayats] and shall make recommendations as to —
(a) the principles which should govern —
(a) the distribution between the State and the \Panchayats] of the net
proceeds of taxes, duties, tolls and fees leviable by the State,
which may be divided between them, and the allocation between
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