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

(xvii) fees on erection, exhibition, fixing or retaining upon or over any land,
building, wall, hoarding, or structure, any advertisement for public display
in any manner whatsoever, in any place whether public or private
excepting those exhibited by the State Government in the public interest.
(2) The Gram Panchayat shall not undertake registration of a vehicle or levy fee
therefor and shall not provide sanitary arrangements at places of worship or
pilgrimage, fairs and melas within its jurisdiction or levy fee therefor if such
vehicle has already been registered by any other authority under any law for the
time being in force or if such provision for sanitary arrangement has already been
made by any other local authority.
(3) The scales of tolls, and the fees or rates and the terms and conditions of
imposition thereof, shall be such as may be provided by bye-laws.
(4) Such bye-laws may provide for exemption from all or any of the tolls, fees or
rates in any class of cases.
Power to
borrow money.
47A. A Gram Panchayat may borrow money from the Stale Government or 4 *
* * * from banks or other financial institutions for furtherance of its objective
on the basis of such specific schemes as may be drawn up by the Gram
Panchayat for the purpose.
Budget of Gram
Panchayat.
48. (1) Every Gram Panchayat shall, at such lime and in such manner as may be
prescribed, prepare in each year a budget or its estimated receipts and
disbursements for the following year 1 * * *.
(2) (a) The budget prepared under sub-section (1) shall be written in
vernacular of the district or the locality concerned and copies of the budget
shall be pasted in such prominent places within the Gram Panchayat as
may be prescribed, inviting objections and suggestions by the members of
the Gram Sabha.
(b) Copies of the budget shall be forwarded to the Panchayat Samiti
having jurisdiction over the Gram for its views, if any.
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