Maharashtra Board Class 6 Civics Solution Chapter 3 – Rural Local Government Bodies
Balbharati Maharashtra Board Class 6 Civics Solution Chapter 3: Rural Local Government Bodies. Marathi or English Medium Students of Class 6 get here Rural Local Government Bodies full Exercise Solution.
| Std | Maharashtra Class 6 |
| Subject | History and Civics Solution |
| Chapter | Rural Local Government Bodies |
(1)(1) Panchayat Samiti
(2) Four
(3) 35
(2) Make a list of the functions of the Panchayat Samiti.
Ans. The functions of Panchayat Samiti are : –
(i) It prepares a plan of the schemes to be implemented in the development blocks.
(ii) It is binding on the Panchayat Samiti to hold at least on meeting every month.
(iii) It receives a certain amount of money from the district funds.
(iv) It receives grants from the state govt. to carry the development schemes of development block
(3) (1) The Gram Panchayat levies various taxes.
Gram Panchayat levies certain taxes which also acts as the source of fund for its administration apart from the funds received by upper govt.
(2) The number of Zilla Parishads is less than the total number of districts in Maharashtra
In Maharashtra, the number of Zila Parishad is only 34 while the number of district is 36 however, earlier Maharashtra only had 26 districts back in 1960 when it was created.+
More Extra Questions –
Multiple choice questions: (marks:1)
1.) The administration in our country carried on at:
a.) 3 levels
b.) 2 levels
c.) 4 levels
Ans: 3 levels.
2.) The administration of the entire country is carried out by:
a.) State government
b.) Union government
c.) Local government
Ans: Union government.
3.) The election to a gram panchayat are held every:
a.) 3 years
b.) 5 years
c.) 10 years
Ans: 5 years.
4.) In each financial year Gram sabha hold:
a.) 4 meetings
b.) 5 meetings
c.) 6 meetings
Ans: 6 meetings.
5.) Election to the panchayat samiti are held every:
a.) 4 years
b.) 5 years
c.) 6 years
Ans: 5 years.
Answer the following questions: (marks:1)
1.) What are the types of local government bodies?
Ans: The local government bodies are classified as rural local government bodies and urban local government bodies.
2.) What is known as the ‘Panchayati Raj Institutions ‘?
Ans: The rural local government bodies such as the gram panchayat, panchayat samiti and zilla parishad are collectively known as ‘Panchayati Raj Institutions’.
3.) What is Gram Sabha?
Ans: The assembly of all voters of the village or rural area is known as Gram Sabha.
4.) What acts as a link between Gram panchayat and Zilla Parishad?
Ans: Panchayat samiti acts as a link between Gram Sabha and Zilla Parishad.
Answer the following questions: (marks:2/3)
1.) What do you know about Gram panchayat?
Ans: Gram panchayat is a part of rural local government body.The Gram Panchayat looks after the administration of the village. If the population of a village is less than 500, two or more such villages come under one Gram Panchayat. It is then called a ‘Group Gram Panchayat’. The functions of gram panchayat are related to water supply, electricity, registration of births, deaths and marriages.
2.) What are the functions of Gram Sevak?
Ans: Gram Sevak is the secretary of the Gram Panchayat. He is appointed by the Chief Executive Officer of the Zilla Parishad. The main functions of Gram Sevak are to look after the day to day functioning of the Gram Panchayat, to explain its development schemes to the residents of the village, etc.
3.) What are the different committes of Zilla Parishad?
Ans: The work of the Zilla Parishad is carried out through different committees. They are: the Finance Committee, Agriculture Committee, Education Committee,Health Committee, Water Management and Sanitation Committee, The Women and Child Welfare Committee etc.
4.) What are the conditions of eligibility to get elected to the Gram panchayat? or, Who can contest elections?
Ans: In order to get elected to the Gram Panchayat, Panchayat Samiti and Zilla Parishad, candidates must fulfil certain conditions of eligibility. The conditions are:
- He/ she should be a citizen of India.
- He/She should have completed 21 years of age.
- The person’s name should be enrolled in the local voters list.
Answer the following questions: (marks:5)
1) What is panchayat samiti? What are the functions of panchayat samiti? (1+4=5)
Ans: The body that looks after the functioning of the development block is the Panchayat Samiti. It also acts as a link between the Zilla Parishad and Gram Panchayat.
Functions:
The Panchayat Samiti prepares a plan of the schemes to be implemented in the development block. It is binding on the Panchayat Samiti to hold at least one meeting every month.The Panchayat Samiti receives a certain amount of money from the district funds. It also receives grants from the State Government to carry out the development schemes of the development block.
A) Health: Arrange health check up camps and provide vaccination for the eligibles.
B) Water supply: Ensuring clean and regular supply of drinking water.
C) Public hygiene: Maintain public hygiene to reduce the chance of infection. Such as: maintaining cleanliness of roads,safe disposal of waste etc.
D) Agriculture: Helping the farmers to improve agriculture and livestock.
E) Education: Ensure compulsory primary education for the children.
F) Industries: Helps in the promotion of handicrafts and cottage industries.
G) People’s welfare: panchayat samiti providing financial aids to the weaker sections of population.
H) Meet the needs of the public: panchayat samiti fulfills the other needs of the public such as building new roads, repairing the old roads, building and maintaining the gutters,wells and borewells.
2) What do you know about Zilla Parishad ? Discuss the functions of Zilla Parishad?(2+3=5)
Ans: Every District has a Zilla Parishad. Elections to the Zilla Parishad are held every five years. The elected representatives choose a President and a Vice-President from among themselves. The President of the Zilla Parishad presides over the meetings of the Zilla Parishad. He exercises control over business conducted during the meetings. He also controls the financial transactions of the Zilla Parishad. He has the authority to undertake appropriate expenses from the Zilla Parishad’s funds. The Vice-President carries out these duties in the absence of the President.
Functions:
- Education facilities: Zilla Parishad provides educational facilities to the children and also ensured compulsory primary education.
- Health facilities: It ensures health care facilities to all people instead of caste and creed.
- Water supply: provision of safe and regular supply of drinking water.
- Electricity: Zilla Parishad ensures electric supply to all people.
- Provision of seeds: provision of seeds to help the farmers and to improve agriculture.
- Tree plantation in the village: Arrange the tree plantation programmes at the village and encourage common people to plant more trees anr stop cutting trees and describes the benefits of planting trees.
3) Discuss about the rural lical government bodies.(5)
Or,
Describe the panchayati Raj Institutions.(5)
Ans: local government bodies plays an important role in the regulation of social life. The lical government bodies are broadly classified as rural local bodies and urban local government bodies. The Gram panchayat, panchayat samiti and Zilla Parishad are the rural loc government bodies that are collectively known as panchayati Raj Institutions.
∆ Gram Panchayat:
The Gram Panchayat looks after the administration of the village. If the population of a village is less than 500, two or more such villages come under one Gram Panchayat. It is then called a ‘Group Gram Panchayat’. The Gram Panchayat carries out the functions relating to water supply, electricity, registration of births, deaths and marriages.
- The office bearers and officers of the Gram Panchayat
~Sarpanch : The elections to a Gram Panchayat are held every five years. The elected members elect a Sarpanch and Deputy Sarpanch from among themselves.The meetings of the Gram Panchayat are held under the chairmanship of the Sarpanch. The responsibility of sarpanch is to implement the development schemes of the village. In the absence of the Sarpanch, the Deputy Sarpanch looks after the work of a Gram Panchayat. The minimum and maximum number of members of Gram panchayat are 7 and 17.
~ Gram Sevak : He is the secretary of the Gram Panchayat. He is appointed by the Chief Executive Officer of the Zilla Parishad. The main function of gran sevak is to look after the daily functioning of the Gram Panchayat, to explain its development schemes to the residents of the village, etc.
~ Gram Sabha : The assembly of all the voters of the village or rural area is the Gram Sabha. It is the most important organization of the people at the local level.It is binding to hold at least six meetings of the Gram Sabha in each financial year.
∆ Panchayat Samiti: Panchayat Samiti is the body that looks after the functioning of the development block. It also acts as a link between the Zilla Parishad and Gram PPanchayat.
- The office bearers of the Panchayat
Samiti : Elections to the Panchayat Samiti are held every five years. The elected members elect from among themselves, the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Panchayat Samiti. The Chairman has the responsibility of calling the meetings and conducting the business of the meetings. In the absence of the Chairman, the Deputy Chairman presides over the meetings. The minimum members of panchayat samiti is 15 and maximum number of members of panchayat samiti is 45.
- The Functions of the Panchayat
Samiti : The Panchayat Samiti prepares a plan of the schemes to be implemented in the development block. It is binding on the Panchayat Samiti to hold at least one meeting every month. The Panchayat Samiti receives a certain amount of money from the district funds. It also receives grants from the State Government to carry out the development schemes of the development block. Main functions are:
- Provides health facilities. – Water supply
- Maintain public hygiene
- Helps in improvement of agriculture
- Ensure education facilities – Meet the needs of public etc.
∆ Zilla Parishad:
Every District has a Zilla Parishad.
- The office-bearers of the Zilla Parishad : Elections to the Zilla Parishad are held every five years. The elected representatives choose a President and a VicePresident from among themselves. The President of the Zilla Parishad presides over the meetings of the Zilla Parishad. He exercises control over business conducted during the meetings. He also controls the financial transactions of the Zilla Parishad. He has the authority to undertake appropriate expenditure from the Zilla Parishad’s funds. The Vice-President carries out these duties in the absence of the President. The minimum members of Zilla Parishad is 50 and maximum members of Zilla school is 75.
Functions:
- Provides educational facilities.
- Provides health facilities.
- Water supply.
- Supply of electricity .
- Provision of seeds.
- Tree plantation programmes in the village etc.
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