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  2. Gram panchayat - Wikipedia

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    The members of the gram panchayat are elected directly by the people. The gram panchayat is headed by an elected President and Vice President, assisted by a Secretary who serves as the administrative head of the panchayat. The president of a gram panchayat is known as a "Pradhan" or "Sarpanch" in Northern India. There are about 250,000 gram ...

  3. Sarpanch - Wikipedia

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    A sarpanch, gram pradhan, mukhiya, or president is a decision-maker, elected by the village-level constitutional body of local self-government called the gram sabha (village government) in India. [1] The sarpanch, together with other elected panchayat members (referred to as ward panch), constitute gram panchayats and zilla panchayats. The ...

  4. Panchayati raj in India - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Antana - Wikipedia

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    The Antana gram panchayat administered by Sarpanch. ... In 2011, the literacy rate was 80.46%, compared to 66.11% for Rajasthan, with male literacy at 91.50%, and ...

  6. List of tehsils of Rajasthan - Wikipedia

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    In some instances, tehsils overlap with "blocks" (panchayat union blocks or panchayat development blocks) and come under the land and revenue department, headed by tehsildar; and blocks come under the rural development department, headed by the block development officer and serve different government administrative functions over the same or ...

  7. Meethari Marwar - Wikipedia

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    The village is a Gram Panchayat under Panchayat Samitee Ladnu. The Gram Panchayat is divided into 12 wards. Every five years the entire panchayat sarpanch is up for election, along with the heads, or panchon, of the 12 wards. In the 2020 panchayat election, Laxmi Devi Bajari was elected the village sarpanch.

  8. Panchayat samiti - Wikipedia

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    The panchayat samiti is the link between the gram panchayat (village council) and the zila parishad (district council). [3] The name varies across states: mandal parishad in Andhra Pradesh , taluka panchayat in Gujarat , and mandal panchayat or taluk panchayat in Karnataka , block panchayat in Kerala , panchayat union in Tamilnadu , janpad ...

  9. Panchayati raj - Wikipedia

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    The leader of the panchayat was often called the president, mukhiya, sarpanch, or pradhan, which was an elected or generally acknowledged position. The modern panchayati raj system of India and its gram panchayats should not be confused with the traditional system or the extra-constitutional khap panchayats (or caste panchayats) found in parts ...