Paper I · 12 Local Self-Government · 12.3 Panchayat Raj in Telangana

12.3.1 73rd Amendment and the Telangana Panchayat Raj Act 2018: gram panchayat, gram sabha and functionaries

The 73rd Amendment (1992) made panchayats a constitutional third tier; in Telangana they work under the Telangana Panchayat Raj Act, 2018, which sets up the gram panchayat with a directly elected sarpanch, a gram sabha of all village voters that must meet every two months, and a panchayat secretary who answers to the panchayat.

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Key terms

  • 73rd Amendment
  • Part IX
  • Eleventh Schedule
  • Article 243G
  • Balwantrai Mehta
  • Shadnagar 1959
  • Andhra Pradesh Panchayat Raj Act 1994
  • Telangana Panchayat Raj Act 2018
  • Act 5 of 2018
  • gram panchayat
  • sarpanch
  • upa-sarpanch
  • ward member
  • gram sabha
  • quorum
  • panchayat secretary
  • standing committees
  • Gram Panchayat Tribunal
  • deemed removal
  • two-child norm
  • PESA
  • Schedule VIII
  • house tax
  • kolagaram

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