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Attendance of witnesses [Section 77(d)].- (1)(a) The Gram Panchayat shall pay diet money which consists of a daily allowance and travelling allowance to a witness for the reasonable expenses for attendance before the Gram Panchayat, but no diet money shall be paid to any person who resides in the jurisdiction of the Gram Panchayat. Subject to the provisions of clause (c) of sub-section (1) of Section 77, the scale of diet money shall be as under:- (i) daily allowance at the rate of rupees one hundred per hearing: (ii) travelling allowance for a journey by road equivalent to actual expenses incurred, or 166 The Punjab Panchayati Raj (Gram Panchayat) Rules, 2012 (iii) travelling allowance of a journey by railways of second class or sleeper class rate according to the status of the witness: Provided that if a servant or officer of the Govern ment or Local authority is summoned as witness, his daily and travelling allowances shall be governed by the rules of the Government or the Local Authority, as the case may be, or if there are no such rules for the Local Authority, such daily and travelling allowances shall be, as may be determined by the Gram Panchayat. (2) When the diet money is deposited, the Gram Panchayat shall give a receipt in Form-lll to the person depositing it and shall forthwith enter in the register of diet money, in Form-XIV, the name of the depositor and the amount deposited. On payment to the witness, the Sarpanch or authorised Panch in whose presence the amount is paid, shall sign the entries in the register. (3) The Gram Panchayat may depute the Sarpanch or Panch (preferably its women Panch) to examine the women witness at her residence in the Gram Sabha area or the residence of her relatives or friends in the said area or at the Panchayat meeting. The statement so recorded shall be signed or thumb- marked by the woman witness and attested at least by one identifying witness and shall form part of the record of the case, suit or proceeding concerned.