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Panchayati Raj is a system of rural local self-government in India.  It has been established in all the states of India by the acts of the state legislature to build democracy at the grass root level.  It is entrusted with rural development and was constitutionalized through the 73rd Constitutional Amendment Act of 1992.      Panchayati Raj was not a new concept to India. Indian villages had Panchayats (council of five persons) from very ancient time, which were having both executive and judicial powers and used to handle various issues (land distribution, tax collection etc.) or disputes arising in the village area. Gandhiji also held the opinion of empowerment of Panchayats for the development of rural areas. Thus, recognizing their importance our Constitution makers included a provision for Panchayats in part IV of our constitution (directive principles of state policy).      Art. 40 confers the responsibility upon State to take steps to organise Village Panchayats and endow them with such powers and authority as may be necessary to enable them to function as units of self-government. But it does not give guidelines for organising village panchayats. Thus, its formal organisation and structure was firstly recommended by Balwant Rai committee,1957 (Committee to examine the Community Development Programme,1952). The Committee, in its report in November 1957, recommended the establishment of the scheme of ‘democratic decentrali ...
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