Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Subject to such conditions as may be prescribed, the duties of a Gram Panchayat shall be to provide within the area under its jurisdiction for— (a) sanitation, conservancy and drainage and the prevention of public nuisances; (b) curative and preventive measures in respect of malaria, small pox, cholera or any other epidemic; (c) supply of drinking water and the cleansing and disinfecting the sources of supply and storage of water; (d) the maintenance, repair and construction of public streets and protection thereof; (e) the removal of encroachments of public streets or public places; (f) the protection and repair of buildings or other property vested in it; (g) the management and care of public tanks, subject to the provisions of the Bengal Tanks Improvement Act, 1939, Ben. Act XV common grazing grounds, burning ghats and public of 1939. graveyards; (h) the supply of any local information which the District Magistrate, the Zilla Parishad or the Panchayat Samiti within the local limits of whose jurisdiction the Gram Panchayat is situate, may require; (i) organising voluntary labour for community works and works for the upliftment of its area; (j) the control and administration of the Gram Panchayat Fund established under this Act; (k) the imposition, assessment and collection of the taxes, rates or fees leviable under this Act; (1) the maintenance and control of Dafadars and Chowkidars within its jurisdiction and securing due performance by the Dafadars and Chowkidars of the duties imposed on them under this Act; (m) the constitution and administration of the Nyaya Panchayat established under this Act; and (n) the performance of such functions as may be transferred to it under section 31 of the Cattle-trespass Act, 1871. 1 of 1871. 276 The West Bengal Panchayat Act, 1973. XLI of 1973.] (Part IL—Gram Panchayat.—Chapter /IL—Powers and duties of Gram Panchayat.—Sections 20, 21.)