Madhya Pradesh Quiz: Panchayati Raj and Urban Local Bodies of MP

The 73rd Amendment came into force on 24 April 1993 and gave the states one year to bring their laws in line with Part IX.

The middle tier of panchayati raj in Madhya Pradesh is the Janpad Panchayat, set up for a development block, and it is headed by an Adhyaksha elected by its own elected members, with an Up-Adhyaksha as deputy.

In Madhya Pradesh the voters of the panchayat area elect the Sarpanch directly, along with the Panches of the wards, and the Panches then choose an Up-Sarpanch from among themselves.

Madhya Pradesh brought in the Gram Swaraj system in 2001, giving the Gram Sabha committees of its own for development, education, health and agriculture and a Gram Kosh built from contributions of grain, labour, material and cash; the state Act was renamed the Madhya Pradesh Panchayat Raj Evam Gram Swaraj…

Article 243ZD, inserted by the 74th Amendment, requires every state to constitute a District Planning Committee in each district to consolidate the plans prepared by the panchayats and the municipalities of the district and to prepare a draft development plan for the district as a whole; at least four-fifths of…

The state passed this law in 1993 to carry out the 73rd Amendment, held elections under it in 1994 and added the words Gram Swaraj to its name after the reform that made the Gram Sabha the centre of village government.

A Nagar Palik Nigam, that is a municipal corporation, is constituted for a larger urban area under this Act of 1956, the same year in which the state of Madhya Pradesh was formed; its elected head is the Mayor and its executive head the Municipal Commissioner.

Part IX of the Constitution does not apply on its own to the Fifth Schedule areas, so Parliament passed the Provisions of the Panchayats (Extension to the Scheduled Areas) Act in 1996 to extend it with changes that protect tribal custom.

Article 243F says that a person who is not qualified to be a member of the legislature of the state is disqualified from a panchayat, but adds that no one shall be disqualified for being under twenty-five years of age if he has attained the age of twenty-one, so twenty-one…

Article 243E gives every panchayat a term of five years from the date of its first meeting, allows it to be dissolved earlier under a law in force, and requires the election to be completed within six months of the dissolution; but a panchayat constituted at such an election continues…