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Question
Answer the following question briefly:
What is the importance of Gram Panchayats?
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Solution
The Gram Panchayat assists the villagers in dealing with day-to-day problems. It performs administrative, social, economic, and judicial functions. It ensures the participation of the villages in developing their community. Hence, people leam to cooperate and participate in the government of the country at the grass roots level.
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This is a village scene representing an important function of the gram panchayat.
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Nimone is a village on the Chauphula-Shirur Road. Like many others, this village has also been facing a severe water shortage for the last few months and villagers depend on tankers for all their needs. Bhagvan Mahadeo Lad (35) of this village was beaten with sticks, iron rods and axes by a group of seven men. The incident came to light when some villagers brought a badly injured Lad to the hospital for treatment. In the FIR recorded by the police Lad said that he was attacked when he insisted that the water in the tanker must be emptied into the storage tanks constructed as part of the water supply scheme by Nimone Gram Panchayat so that there would be equal distribution of water. However, he alleged that the upper caste men were against this and told him that the tanker water was not meant for the lower castes.
Adapted from Indian Express, May 1, 2004
a. Why was Bhagvan beaten?
b. Do you think that the above is a case of discrimination? Why?
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The people of Hardas village are facing the problem of ________
Choose the correct option to complete the statement given below:
The work of the Gram Panchayat has to be approved by the _____
Choose the correct option to complete the statement given below:
Which one is not the source of funds for the Panchayat?
State whether these sentence is true (T) or false (F).
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State whether the sentence is true (T) or false (F).
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