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(a) exclude from any Gram any area comprised therein; or (b) include in any Gram any area contiguous to such Gram or separated by an area to which this Act does not extend or in which the remaining sections of this Act referred to in sub-section (3) of section 1 have not come into force; or (c) divide the area of a Gram so as to constitute two or more Grams, or (d) unite the area of two or more Grams so as to constitute a single Gram. 4. (1) For every Gram the State Government shall constitute a Gram Panchayat bearing the name of the Gram. (2) Persons whose names are included in the electoral roll 2 [prepared in accordance with such rules as may be made by the State Government in this behalf and in force on such date as the State Election Commissioner may declare for the purpose of an election] pertaining to the area comprised in the Gram, shall elect by secret ballot at such time and in such manner as may be prescribed, from among themselves such number of members 3 [not being less than five] or 4 [more than thirty] 5 [as the prescribed authority may, having regard to the number of voters in hill areas and other areas and in accordance with such rules as may be made in this behalf by the State Government, determine] 6 * * * * 1 Provided that seats shall be reserved for the Scheduled Castes and the Gram Panchayat and its constitutions Scheduled Tribes in a Gram Panchayat, and the number of seats so reserved shall bear, as nearly as may be and in the manner and in accordance with such rules as may be made in this behalf by the State Government, the same proportion to the total number of seats in that Gram Panchayat to be filled up by election as the population of the Scheduled Castes in that Gram or of the Scheduled Tribes in that Gram, as the case may be, bears to the total population of that Gram and such seats shall be subject to allocation by rotation, in the manner prescribed, to such different constituencies having Scheduled Castes or Scheduled Tribes population which bears with the total population in that constituency not less than half of the proportion that the total Scheduled Castes population or the Scheduled Tribes population in that Gram, as the case may be, bears with the total population in that Gram: 6
1 Provided further that not less than one-third of the total number of seats reserved for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes shall be reserved for women belonging to the Scheduled Castes or the Scheduled Tribes, as the case may be: 1 Provided also that not less than one-third of the total number of seats, including the seats reserved for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes, in a Gram Panchayat shall be reserved for women, and the constituencies for the seats so reserved for women shall be determined by rotation, in such manner as may be prescribed: 1 Provided also that notwithstanding anything contained in the foregoing provisions of this sub-section 2 * * * *, when the number of members to be elected to a Gram Panchayat is determined by the prescribed authority or when seats are reserved for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes in a Gram Panchayat in the manner as aforesaid, the number of members so determined or the number of seats so reserved shall not be varied for three successive general elections: 1 Provided also that no member of the Scheduled Castes or the Scheduled Tribes and no woman for whom seats are reserved under this sub-section, shall, if eligible for election to a Gram Panchayat, be disqualified for election to any seat not so reserved: 1 Provided also that the State Election Commissioner may, at any time, for reasons to be recorded in writing 2 [, by order, direct the prescribed authority to make fresh determination] of the number of members of a Gram Panchayat or fresh reservation on rotation of the number of seats in such Gram Panchayat and, on such order being issued by the State Election Commissioner, the determination of the number of members 3 [or the number of seats (o be reserved or the sequence of rotation of reservation of seats or any combination of them as may be specified in such order] shall not be varied for 4 [the next] three successive general elections: 7
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(e) all public lamps, lamp-posts an
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(3) Every Gram Panchayat shall have
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the case of exchange, or the value
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(xvii) fees on erection, exhibition
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Gram Panchayat, Panchayat Samiti 1
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(4) The offence of theft triable by
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had jurisdiction to try the offence
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(b) in default of payment, sentence
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Suites to imporve whole claim. 63.
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Power to determine. 71. (1) Subject
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Bar to trial of case of suit in whi
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Appearance of parties. Legal practi
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Resignation by member of Nyaya Panc
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Government, the same proportion to
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95 (1) When any Gram is excluded fr
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96. (1) The members of a Panchayat
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(i) 2 he has not attained the age o
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2 Provided also that if, for any te
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(6) When the offices of the Sabhapa
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101. 1 [Subject to the other provis
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hour fixed at the immediately prece
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(ii) undertake execution of any sch
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accordance with such procedure as m
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section (1)] within the time and in
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Provided also that no development c
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Provided further that if such perso
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(3) Whoever uses without a license
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(1B) 1 There shall be a Secretary f
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(vib) 6 Matsya O Prani Sampad Bikas
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(2) An elected member of a Sthayee
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2 CHAPTER XIA Samanway Samiti of of
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(3) Every Panchayat Samiti shall ha
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(c) The Panchayat Samiti shall, wit
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determined, or when seats are reser
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inconsistent with the provisions of
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(B) of an offence under Chapter IXA
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'Provided also that not less than o
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Sabhadhipati is elected and assumes
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(3) The order passed by such author
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3 Provided also that for the purpos
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(ii) undertake execution of any sch
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other property which is under its c
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(4) 1 When a Zilla Parishad takes a
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1 Explanation— For the purpose of
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with its own recommendation. The Zi
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member in a Sthayee Samiti and such
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(5) 6 Notwithstanding anything cont
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(a) contributions and grants, if an
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(ii) a fee for providing sanitary a
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(a) anything done or any action tak
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population or the Scheduled Tribes
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(c) A Sthayee Samiti shall consist
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(b) any material impropriety or irr
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(2) Where a person referred to in s
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Panchayat Samiti or the Zilla Paris
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ules or bye-laws made thereunder, t
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any service, work or thing under th
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207. (1) The State Government may t
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(2) Upon the transfer of any powers
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other provisions of this section, d
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first meeting of the Panchayat was
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declare any member or members to be
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selected, he shall exercise the pow
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(a) to examine the accounts of the
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until the reconstitution of such Gr
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allocation as may be determined by
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under this Act for such area shall
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