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Maharashtra has 29 Municipal Corporations, 232 Municipal councils and 125 Nagar Panchayats.. These urban local bodies are governed by Maharashtra Municipal Corporations Act, 1949, [1] Mumbai Municipal Corporation Act, 1888 [2] and The Maharashtra Municipal Councils, Nagar Panchayats and Industrial Townships Act, 1965.
The roles of Panchayat Sahayak and Common Service Centres (CSCs) are integral to rural development and governance in India, yet they serve distinct functions and objectives. Both entities contribute to the empowerment and efficient administration of rural areas, but their areas of focus and methods of operation differ significantly.
Panchayat samiti is a local government body at the Taluka (sub-district)( level in India. It works for the villages that together are called a Block. The Panchayat Samiti is the link between the Gram Panchayat and Zilla Parishad. There are 351 panchayat samitis or block panchayats in Maharashtra.
Membership in the block panchayat is mostly ex-official; it is composed of: all of the Sarpanchas (gram panchayat chairmen) in the Panchayat Samiti area, the MPs and MLAs of the area, the Sub-District Officer (SDO) of the sub-division, co-opt members (representatives of the SCs, STs and women), associate members (a farmer from the area, a ...
The table below lists all the talukas (tahsils/tehsils) of all the thirty-six districts in the Indian state of Maharashtra, along with district-subdivision and urban status information of headquarters villages/towns, as all talukas are intermediate level panchayats between the zilla parishad (district councils) at the district level and gram panchayats (village councils) at the lower level.
Although, as of 2015, implementation in all of India is not complete, the intention is for there to be a gram panchayat for each village or group of villages, a tehsil level council, and a zilla panchayat at the district level. In India, the nomenclature of Panchayat Raj institutions varies across different states. At the village level ...
(Minister of Panchayat Raj) (MLC for Elected by MLAs Constituency No. 05 - Ahmednagar District) (Legislative Council) 25 June 1991 22 February 1993 1 year, 242 days Indian National Congress: Minister of Rural Development and Panchayat Raj 36 Ranjeet Deshmukh (MLA for Savner Constituency No. 49- Nagpur District) (Legislative Assembly) 06 March 1993
It was the 74th amendment to the Constitution of India in 1992 that brought constitutional validity to municipal or local governments. Until amendments were made in respective state municipal legislations as well, municipal authorities were organised on an ultra vires (beyond the authority) basis and the state governments were free to extend or control the functional sphere through executive ...