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Special meeting of the Gram Sabha.– (1) Nothing contained in section 3G shall be construed as preventing groups of women, the scheduled castes and the scheduled tribes, and the farmers and the artisan population, the youth and the senior citizens, within the Gram Sabha come together as often as may be to hold meetings among themselves and outline their needs of the group for development along with suggestions of redressal, for being placed before the Gram Sabha at its regular meetings. Provided that, needs outlined by the habitation sabha and Ward Sabha at their meeting shall be taken up at the meeting of the Gram Sabha and recorded as its own for being forwarded to be placed before Gram Panchayat. Provided further that, the needs outlined by each of such representative group at their meetings shall be taken up by the Gram Sabha and followed up as its own for being presented to the Gram Panchayat. (2) Without prejudice to anything contained in the other provisions of this section, the Adhyaksha may call for, - (i) meetings of Gram Sabhas for drafting plans and programmes for empowerment, of the scheduled castes and the scheduled tribes, women and the children to discuss issues related to each of them separately, at least once in a year before the Gram Panchayat meetings; (ii) special meetings of the Gram Sabha whenever a request is made by not less than ten percent of the members of the Gram Sabha specifying the subject for discussion in such request, so however that there shall be an interval of at least three months between any two special meetings; (iii) Special budget meetings of the Gram Sabha twice a year in the months of April and October to consider the plans and finances of the Gram Panchayat; (3) The budget allocated to the scheduled castes and the scheduled tribes shall be in proportion to their population in the given Gram Panchayat and shall be decided in their special meeting of the Gram Sabha; Provided, that the fund which is not utilised by the said Gram Sabha, the fund shall be utilised in accordance with the Karnataka scheduled castes sub-plan and the scheduled 43 tribes sub-plan (planning, allocation and utilization of financial resource) Act, 2013 (Karnataka Act 65 of 2013).]1