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It is a three tier system, with the Zilla Parishad at the district level, Taluka panchayat at the Taluka or sub-district level and Grampanchayat (Village Council) at the lowest level. Maharashtra was one of the first states to implement the three tier system under the Maharashtra Zilla Parishads and Panchayat Samitis Acts 1961 of Maharashtra State.
The Zila Panchayat or District Development Council or Zilla Parishad or District Panchayat or is the third tier of the Panchayati Raj system and functions at the district levels in all states. A Zila Parishad is an elected body representing the entire rural area of a district.
The 4-tier panchayat system was inaugurated in West Bengal on Mahatma Gandhi's birthday (2 October) in the year 1964 by the passage of the West Bengal Zilla Parishad Act in 1963. It consisted of Gram panchayats composed of representatives directly elected by villagers for a term of 4 years
Elections for over 27 Zilla Parishads in Maharashtra were held on 21 March 2012, . The main contenders were the ruling United Progressive Alliance consisting of Indian National Congress and Nationalist Congress Party on one side and the opposition National Democratic Alliance consisting of Shiv Sena and Bharatiya Janata Party on the other side.
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 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.
Kamptee taluka is a taluka of Nagpur district in Maharashtra state, India. [1] It covers an area of 40,700 hectare, and as of 2001 had a population of 209,003, 126,097 of whom were urban dwellers, and 82,906 were rural. [2] The administrative center of the taluka is the city of Kamptee. It is also a part of Nagpur metropolitan region.
Elections for Zila Parishads and Panchayat samiti were held on 7 February 2012. [2] Municipal elections were held across various cities in Maharashtra, India on 16 February. In different cities elections results were mixed by party.