Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
General powers of Zilla Panchayat.- (1) The Zilla Panchayat shall have powers to do all acts necessary for or incidental to, the carrying out of the functions entrusted or delegated to it and, in particular, and without prejudice to the foregoing powers to exercise all powers specified under this Act. (2) Subject to the general or special orders of the Government, a Zilla Panchayat may,- (a) incur expenditure on education or medical relief outside its jurisdiction; (b) provide for carrying out any work or measure likely to promote the health, safety, education, comfort, convenience or social or economic or cultural well-being of the inhabitants of the district; (c) contribute to associations of all India, State or Inter-State level, concerned with the promotion of local Government and to exhibition, seminars and conferences within the district related to the activities of Grama Panchayat, Taluk Panchayat and Zilla Panchayat; and (d) render financial or other assistance to any person for carrying on in the district any such activity which is related to any of the functions of the said bodies. 1[(e) carrying out the functions enumerated in schedule-III with the funds allocated by the Government to implement the duties and functions vested in the Zilla Panchayats including the following,- (i) providing assistance to the Taluk Panchayat and Gram Panchayats to ensure the safety, security, freedom and rights of all residents residing in the village. (ii) maintenance of community health centres and district hospitals at the district level and to perform all the functions required to the care of special categories and the differently abled including programmes for the development and empowerment of women and children at district level. (iii) Monitor first grade colleges, Pre-University colleges, polytechnics, industrial training institutes, ashram schools, hostels, orphanages, Government industrial, technical and vocational training institutions for youth and rural artisans and education centres and to access to the information required through libraries with internet facilities. (iv) Promote and support Taluk Panchayat and Gram Panchayats to develop and promote tourist destinations, khadi and village industries, establish food storage, processing and marketing outlets and create opportunities for self- 141 employment and the alleviation of poverty through rural enterprises and cooperative societies. (v) promote and support the Taluk Panchayats to manage women’s co-operative banks or societies for women separately at the taluk level to promote small business, small and medium scale industries run by woman. (vi) assist the Taluk Panchayat and Gram Panchayats by providing technical and material support to preserve, protect and nurture the biodiversity and ecology of the area and plan for social forestry and the maintenance of multi village solid and liquid waste management plants and the prevention of drilling of irrigation bore wells in the vicinity of drinking water wells to ensure adequate drinking water, especially in dry season. (vii) promote trade of rural agricultural and industrial products, produce and livestock, organising thoroughfares, melas, and exhibitions at the district level. (viii) enable the Taluk and Gram Panchayats to provide clean drinking water, toilets and power supply and provide the infrastructure required including the providing of technical assistance for the following, namely:- (a) construction of underground water re-charging structures to ensure availability of water in the drinking water wells; (b) the management of drinking water projects, setting up water testing labs and the development of ground water resources; and (c) maintain minor irrigation schemes and the conventional and non- conventional energy units including the sale of conventional and non- conventional energy. (ix) identification, documentation and dissemination of low cost, indigenous, viable and sustainable technologies for construction of housing, schools and all public works for the use in zilla, taluk and Gram Panchayats and the planning, construction and maintenance of roads, bridges, culverts, drains etc.; and the maintenance of boats, ferries and water ways at the district level. (x) assist concerned authorities to implement epidemic and disaster management systems and disaster preparedness in all taluks for disaster management and villages of the district, assessing the risks and developing disaster protocols that include capacity building and resource availability such as medical and other requirements for all types of possible disasters and enlisting the cooperation and participation of Taluk Panchayats and Gram Panchayats, non Government organisations and experts in the relevant fields. (xi) promote, preserve and showcase traditional, social and cultural art forms, sports, crafts, skills and practices of all sections of society at the district level. (xii) consolidation, management and maintenance of data base of all relevant socio-economic information and a map of all natural and other resources and assets within the area and updating them periodically to include the information obtained as a result of the surveys and participatory rural appraisals conducted in every Gram Panchayat and the surveys and data collection conducted by every taluk and zilla panchayat. (xiii) incur expenditure on education or medical relief within its jurisdiction; (xiv) provide for carrying out any work or measure likely to promote the health, safety, education, comfort, convenience or social or economic or cultural well- being of the inhabitants of the district; (xv) contribute to associations of all national, state or inter-state level, concerned with the promotion of local self Government and to conduct exhibition, seminars and conferences within the district related to the activities of Gram Panchayat, Taluk Panchayat and zilla panchayat; 142 (xvi) render financial or other assistance to any person for carrying on in the district any such activity specified above which is related to any of the functions of the said institution; and (xvii) to report to the concerned authority acts of illegal quarrying, drilling bore wells, excavating open wells or ponds causing nuisance or danger to the inhabitants of the area]1