Bihar Gram Sabha (Co-ordination of meeting and Procedure for conduct) Rules, 2012

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    "title": "Bihar Gram Sabha (Co-ordination of meeting and Procedure for conduct) Rules, 2012",
    "short_title": "Bihar Gram Sabha (Co-ordination of meeting and Procedure for conduct) Rules, 2012",
    "act_number": "Published vide Notification No. 8P/Vi-4-1012/2010/",
    "act_year": 2012,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Bihar",
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    "description": "Bihar Gram Sabha (Co-ordination of meeting and Procedure for conduct) Rules, 2012",
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        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title, extent and commencement.",
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Definitions.",
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            "content": "(a) \"Act\" means the Bihar Panchayat Raj Act, 2006;\n(b) \"Section\" means the section of the Bihar Panchayat Raj Act, 2006;\n(c) \"Government\" means the State Government (Bihar);\n(d) \"Gram Panchayat\" means an institution of self-governance constituted for the rural area under Article 243 B of the Constitution of India and under Section 11 of the Act;\n(e) \"Gram\" means all revenue villages or group of contiguous revenue villages or a part thereof;\n(f) \"Panchayat Samiti\" means the Panchayat Samiti constituted for each Block under section-34 of the Act;\n(g) \"Zila Parishad\" means Zila Parishad constituted for a district under Section 62 of the Act;\n(h) \"Mukhiya\" means a Mukhiya of the Gram Panchayat elected under the provisions of the Act;\n(i) \"Members of Gram Panchayat\" mean members of the Gram Panchayat elected under clause (b) of sub-section (1) of Section 12 of the Act;\n(j) \"Gram Sabha\" means a body constituted consisting of persons registered therein the electoral roll pertaining to any village falling within the territorial area of a Panchayat at village level;\n(k) \"Panchayat Secretary\" means Secretary of a Gram Panchayat under Section 32 of the Act;\n(l) \"Executive Officer\" means an Executive Officer of the Panchayat Samiti appointed under Section 60 of the Act;\n(m) \"Chief Executive Officer\" means Chief Executive Officer of the Zila Parishad appointed under Section 87 of the Act; and\n(n) All words and expressions used in these Rules but not defined shall have the same meaning which is respectively assigned to them in the Act.",
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            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Gram Sabha and its meetings.",
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        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Place of meeting.",
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        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Publication of notice of meeting.",
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            "content": "(a) By fixing at one or more conspicuous visible places of the village.\n(b) By beating of Drum or Dugdugi or by announcing of such meeting through loudspeaker,\n(c) By informing children at school during prayer so that they may give message relating to the meeting of Gram Sabha to their parents,\n(d) By door to door personal contacts by concerned member or the Secretary of the Gram Panchayat, Provided, for the special purpose, an emergency or a special meeting may be convened on at short period interval notice, but notwithstanding such time the period shall not be less than three days.\n(e) Meeting of the Gram Sabha shall be convened at afternoon on holidays so that women may take part in it after finishing their domestic works.",
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        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Quorum and postponement of the meeting of the Gram Sabha in absence of the Quorum.",
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        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Presiding over the meeting.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Resolution.",
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            "content": "",
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        },
        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Agenda for the meetings of Gram Sabha.",
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            "content": "(a) Compliance of the proposals considered/passed in the last meeting of the Gram Sabha;\n(b) Proposal for action to be taken by Panchayat for the rights and responsibilities as assigned to the Panchayat by the different departments of the government for formulation, implementation and supervision of different schemes/programmes;\n(c) Measures for increasing income of Gram Panchayat;\n(d) Asking explanation related with any specific activities, plan income and expenditure from Mukhiya or members of the Gram Panchayat;\n(e) Receipt and expenditure of Gram Panchayat Fund;\n(f) Serious Audit Objections;\n(g) Comments on Vigilance Committee;\n(h) Re-organization of Vigilance Committees;\n(a) Social Audit. - It shall be an important responsibility of the Gram Sabha to conduct a social Audit of all the developmental works so far implemented in the village. Secretary of the Gram Panchayat shall read out in the Gram Sabha details of all the works and work-wise expenditure, etc, carried out in village during last year. Besides, discussion shall also be held on quality of the work executed and physical verification shall also be caused to be made. If any objection is raised by the members present in the discussion, then Secretary of the Panchayat shall enter the same in the register and shall inform the BDO and the Mukhiya. Action on all of such objections shall be ensured by the BDO and the Mukhiya in accordance with Rules. A compliance report shall also be tabled in the next meeting of the Gram Sabha.\nSocial Audit.\n(b) Social Harmony.- In meetings of the Gram Sabha, discussion shall be held on maintaining the Social Cohesion and Communal Harmony.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Remarks of Mukhiya/Members of Gram Panchayat.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Records of the Proceedings.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Confirmation of proceedings.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Transaction of business.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. Continuance of meeting.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "15",
            "title": "15. Regulation of conduct of business.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "16",
            "title": "16. Compliance of proposals/Resolutions of the Gram Sabha.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "17",
            "title": "17. Monitoring of meeting of the Gram Sabha.",
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            "content": "18. (1) Constitution of Vigilance Committees.\n(b) The Vigilance Committee shall function keeping in close co-ordination with the Panchayat.\n(c) Secretary of the Gram Panchayat shall also work as secretary for the meetings of the Vigilance Committees and shall record its proceedings.\n(b) In Vigilance Committee, there shall be eleven such members of the related territorial constituency who are of unspotted image.\n(c) Elected members of the Gram Panchayat shall not be member of the Vigilance Committee.\n(d) Members belonging to Scheduled Caste and scheduled Tribe shall be selected in the Vigilance Committee in the ratio of territorial constituency's population, thereafter members of the backward classes shall be selected as nearly as far as possible, 20 % of the total number of the members of the Vigilance Committee, but the total number of such members shall be within the maximum limit of 50%. Besides, as far as possible 50% women shall be selected from each category.\n(e) Members of the Vigilance Committee may decide to form a group for supervision of various developmental works, schemes and other activities.\n(f) Members may nominate one member amongst them as Chairperson for the purposes of determining date for convening and presiding over the meeting.\n(b) Seeking clarifications from the Mukhia, Up-Mukhia and Members of the Gram Panchayat about any particular activity, scheme, income and expenditure.\n(c) Role of the vigilance committee is, though supervisory, it shall be constructive, co-operative and advisory. Its main objective shall be quick implementation of developmental schemes, up keeping quality of schemes and objective assessment of complaints received from public.\n(b) Subsequent dates for meetings shall be fixed by the Chairperson of the committee. Notice of the meeting shall be caused to be served by the secretary.\n(c) Meeting of the vigilance committee must be held at least once in a month.\n(d) Secretary of the Gram Panchayat shall be present in all such meetings.\n(i) Complaint received from public in respect of rights and responsibilities as assigned by the different departments of the Government for formulations, implementation and supervision of different schemes/programmes;\n(ii) Quality of the schemes and execution within time limit;\n(iii) Notice board displaying sanctioned amount and expenditure, execution of the schemes or other arrangements for making it transparent;\n(iv) Utilization of Panchayat funds;\nRe-organization of Vigilance Committee.\n19.",
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    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "Last Updated 4th February, 2020 [bh762]",
        "Act Number": "Published vide Notification No. 8P/Vi-4-1012/2010/P.R./5529, dated 14.09.2012",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "2012",
        "Short Title": "Bihar Gram Sabha (Co-ordination of meeting and Procedure for conduct) Rules, 2012",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Bihar"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19"
}