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To exercise such other powers and discharge such functions as the State Government may confer or entrust it under any law in force for the time being. (C) The functions of the Gram Panchayat mentioned in sub-section (A) and (B) of section (75) shall not affect the other Acts/ Rules of the Government in force for the time being, nor their jurisdiction. 66 >kj[k.M xtV ¼vlk/kkj.k½] lkseokj 21 tuojh] 2008 - (D) The government may delegate powers by amending the Acts/ Rules in force for the time being relating to the functions of the Gram Panchayat or its additional functions mentioned in sub-section (A) and (B) of section (75) after due deliberation. Section 76 (A) Functions of Panchayat Samiti - Subject to such conditions as may be prescribed by the Government from time to time, as far as in keeping with the Panchayat Samiti Fund, the Panchayat Samiti shall perform in its area the functions enumerated as follows:- (i) It shall make schemes for its balanced uplift and for ensuring their implementation in the following fields :- (a) Integrated rural development; (b) Integrated agriculture development; (c) Integrated social forestry; (d) Integrated animal husbandry and pisciculture; (e) Integrated health and sanitation; (f) Integrated education and adult education; (g) Integrated cooperative; (h) Integrated village and cottage industry; (i) Integrated welfare (women, children, weaker section the disabled and destitute); (j) Integrated employment programme; (k) Integrated recreation and sports; (l) Integrated road and building construction; (m) Integrated minor irrigation. (ii) General Work - (a) Preparation of the Annual Plans for development of the Panchayat Samiti area and submission thereof to the Zila Parishad for inclusion in the District Plan; (b) Preparation of annual budget of the Panchayat Samiti; (c) Preparation of plans for relief work during natural calamities and their implementation; (d) Maintenance of essential statistics; 67 >kj[k.M xtV ¼vlk/kkj.k½] lkseokj 21 tuojh] 2008 - (iii) Agriculture, including extension of agriculture - (a) Development and promotion of agriculture and horticulture (gardening); (b) Maintenance of Agricultural Seed farms and Horticultural Nurseries; (c) Storage and distribution of insecticides and pesticides; (d) Encouraging dry farming and marketing of vegetables, fruits and flowers; (e) Management of activities regarding training of farmers and their extension; (f) Integrated management of barren lands; (g) Development and maintenance of grazing grounds and preparation of integrated plans for prevention of their unauthorized alienation and use, and supervision of the affairs of Gram Panchayats. (iv) Assistance to the Government and the Zila Parishad in land development, land reform and land conservation. (v) Development of minor irrigation, water management and water shed as well as drainage of slanting water - (a) Assistance the Government and Zila Parishad in providing and maintaining minor irrigation works; (b) Preparation of integrated plan for community and private minor irrigation and ensuring implementation thereof. (vi) Animal husbandry, Dairy and Poultry - (a) Maintenance of animal husbandry and veterinary services; (b) causing execution supervision of integrated plan for improved breeding of domestic cattle, poultry and other live stock; (c) Promotion of Dairy, Poultry and Piggery etc; (d) Prevention and control of epidemics and contagious diseases. (vii) Pisciculture - (a) Integrated development of fisheries in villages; (b) Promoting marketing facilities. (viii) Social and farm forestry and minor forest produce - (a) Preparation of an integrated plan for plantation and preservation of trees on the sides of roads and other public lands under its 68 >kj[k.M xtV ¼vlk/kkj.k½] lkseokj 21 tuojh] 2008 - control, and for their preservation, implementation thereof and constant supervision; (b) Integrated development and promotion of social and farm forestry and sericulture; (c) Plantation for fuel and fodder development programme and extensive publicity and propagation for environment preservation; (d) Integrated management and supervision of collection, storage, processing and marketing of minor forest products; (ix) Khadi, village and cottage industry - (a) Aiding and encouraging development of village and cottage industries; (b) Aiding development of agricultural and commercial industries; (c) Arranging agricultural and industrial exhibitions along with awareness camps, seminars and training programmes for benefit of rural areas at Panchayati Samiti Level. (x) Rural Housing - (a) Ensuring supervision and balanced development of rural housing programmes; (b) ensuring supervision and balanced distribution of residential sites within its jurisdiction; (c) Ensuring maintenance of records concerning residential, sites and other private and public properties. (xi) Drinking water facility - (a) Control and prevention of water pollution; (b) Integrated provision for rural water supply schemes, their repairs and maintenance; (c) Integrated management of drinking water sources. (xii) Roads, buildings, bridges and culverts, water - ways and other means of communication - (a) Ensuring construction and maintenance of village roads, drains and bridges culverts benefiting two or more than two villages within its jurisdiction. (b) Maintenance of buildings under its control or transferred to its by the Government or any Public Authority; 69 >kj[k.M xtV ¼vlk/kkj.k½] lkseokj 21 tuojh] 2008 - (c) Aiding integrated development of boats, ferries and waterways. (xiii) Rural electrification - (a) Aiding Gram Panchayats in providing and maintaining light at public streets and other places; (b) Aiding rural electrification. (xiv) Non - conventional sources of energy - (a) Endeavouring for integrated promotion and development of non - conventional energy schemes; (b) Development and extension of community non - conventional energy sources including bio - gas plants; (c) Extensive propagation and publicity of improved chullha and other programmes of efficient energy devices. (d) Providing device & run by solar energy at subsidized rate. (xv) Poverty alleviation programme - (a) Preparation of plans for full employment and creation of productive assets and taking action with respect to their implementation; (b) Co-operation in effective implementation and monitoring. (xvi) Education including Primary and Secondary Schools - (a) Development of infrastructure for primary, secondary and high school education. (b) Taking necessary action in connection with education - guarantee after preparing a plan therefore. (xvii) Adult and non formal education - (a) Causing execution of integrated plan for promotion of adult literacy. (xviii) Technical training and professional education. (a) Encouraging village arts and artisans. (xix) Providing assistance in development of libraries. (xx) Sports and cultural activities - (a) Encouraging sports and cultural activities and assistance to establishment of village - clubs; (b) Arranging for cultural seminars at Panchayat Samiti level. 70 >kj[k.M xtV ¼vlk/kkj.k½] lkseokj 21 tuojh] 2008 - (xxi) Hygiene and Sanitation - (a) Aiding and guiding Gram Panchayats by making an integrated plan for encouraging village sanitation, for cleanliness of public streets, ponds, wells and roads, for management and control of bathing and washing ghats, for vaccination, for prevention and control of epidemics, for Maintenance as running of burning and burial grounds, for disposal of unclaimed corpses and carcasses, for preventive measures against stray animals. (xxii) Welfare of weaker sections, particularly Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes - (a) Preparation of integrated plan and ensuring implementation thereof in respect of specific programmes for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and weaker sections of the society; (b) Preparation of an integrated plan and ensuring implementation thereof, in respect of programmes against exploitation of and injustice to weaker sections of the society; (c) Ensuring strict compliance of directions and orders issued regarding prevention of untouchability. (xxiii) Health and family welfare - (a) Integrated extension of health and family welfare programmes; (b) Integrated measures for prevention and control of mal nutrition; (c) Carrying out of extensive programmes for encouraging small family norm. (xxiv) Social welfare and social security including women's welfare - (a) Preparation and causing implementation of an integrated plan for welfare of the people mentally and physically handicapped; (b) Assisting Gram Panchayats in providing pension to the old, the disabled and the destitute; (c) Management of an specific integrated programme for social development of women and children. (xxv) Preservation and maintenance of community assets - (a) Ensuring specific provision for community assets created by the Government, local authority and other agencies and measures for their proper use; 71 >kj[k.M xtV ¼vlk/kkj.k½] lkseokj 21 tuojh] 2008 - (b) Providing incentive to the successful Gram Panchayats with the object of encouraging people's participation in this behalf. (xxvi) Public distribution system - (a) Ensuring distribution of essential commodities as per rules and constant identification and evaluation of persons living below the poverty line, in this regard; (b) Constant supervision for making the Public Distribution System efficient and transparent. (xxvii) Supervision of Child Development Programme and helping and guiding Gram Panchayats in this programme and preparing a programme for integrated development and getting the same implemented. (xxviii) Enhancing co-operative activities - (a) Management of an integrated programme as to co-operative based agriculture, dairy, pisciculture and forestation and environment programmes; (b) Preparing an integrated plan for encouraging co-operative based -handicraft, handloom, Tasar, lac and Malwari production and cause its implementation; (c) to help developing a co-operative marketing system. (xxix) Encouraging the common people towards savings and helping the Gram Panchayat develop a group saving scheme. (xxx) Help the Gram Panchayat for organising self - help groups and for activating the villagers towards a self-dependant village. (xxxi) Maintenance of records of birth, death, marriage etc. and arousing awareness in people for registration of births and deaths and helping Gram Panchayats in this behalf. (xxxii) Others - (a) Substantial provision to deal with an unforeseen situation or natural calamity; (b) Provision for casual medical aid to the poorest and help to Gram Panchayats in arranging cremation of the destitute. (c) Co-operation in affairs of national interest such as co-operating in census and in collection of desirable information; (d) Preparation of annual plans for economic growth and social justice of the district and ensuring implementation of such plans by the Panchayats; 72 >kj[k.M xtV ¼vlk/kkj.k½] lkseokj 21 tuojh] 2008 - (e) Preparation of annual plan in respect of plans entrusted to it by any law and also for the plans entrusted to it by the Central Government or the State Government. (f) Co-ordination, evaluation, persuasion of the activities of the Gram Panchayats and guiding them; (g) Ensuring comprehensive supervision, co-ordination and integration of the plans prepared by the Gram Panchayats. (h) Ensuring implementation of the plans entrusted to it by any law and also of the plans entrusted to it by the Central Government or the State Government; (i) Ensuring execution of functions, programmes, plans and projects transferred or delegated to it by the Central Government or the State Government; (j) Re-allocation of the funds made available by the Central or State Government in respect of the functions, programmes, plans and projects transferred or delegated to it by them, to the Gram Panchayats according to the criteria fixed by the Central or State Government; (k) Coordinating the proposals for grants received from the Gram Panchayats for some specific purposes and forwarding it, to the Zila Parishad; (l) Ensuring execution of such plans, projects and other works that belongs to two or more Gram Panchayats jointly; (m) Taking all measure for exploiting resources by exercising the powers conferred, to it by any law or by the Central or State Government; (n) Advising the Zila Parishad with regards to the activities related with development, preservation of environment, social forestry, family welfare and welfare of weaker sections, destitute, women, youths and children; (o) The Panchayat Samiti shall control and supervise the administration within its jurisdiction; and the functions conferred on and the plans entrusted to the Block by the State Government shall be executed under supervision, guidance and control of the Panchayat Samities as per directions as the State Government issued from time to time; (p) Taking all necessary measures, in exploiting resources by exercising the power conferred to it by any law or by the Central or State Government; 73 >kj[k.M xtV ¼vlk/kkj.k½] lkseokj 21 tuojh] 2008 - (q) To exercise such other powers and to discharge such other functions as may from time to time is conferred on or entrusted to it by the State Government; (r) Maintenance of essential statistical works; (s) Taking up regional plans and development plans for basic amenities within the Panchayat Samiti; (t) Preparation and management of plans for basic civil amenities; (u) Implementation, execution and supervision of the schemes and construction works within Gram Panchayats; (v) Control and persuasion of the specific plans prepared for the beneficiaries; (w) Promoting a sense of voluntary labour and community - ownership in respect of community work; (x) Ensuring execution of schemes, projects and programmes entrusted by the Central or the State Government or the Zila Parishad or the Panchayat Samiti; (y) Control over the personnel's posted within the Gram Panchayat area; (z) Letting of minor water bodies on lease, for Pisciculture and other commercial purposes. (B) Additional powers of Panchayat Samiti in scheduled area - Without prejudice to the generality of the powers endowed by this Act, a Panchayat Samiti in any of the scheduled areas shall have the following powers:-