T.N. begins ‘exploratory process’ for potential merger of village panchayats with urban local bodies
The HinduThe Tamil Nadu government is undertaking an “exploratory process” to ascertain the possibility of merging village panchayats with nearby urban local bodies. It is against this backdrop that officials of two departments in charge of rural and urban local bodies - Rural Development and Panchayat Raj, and Municipal Administration and Water Supply - have begun the exercise of gathering inputs to find out the feasibility of merging village panchayats with nearby ULBs or the transfer of some village panchayats from one panchayat union to another or the bifurcation of larger panchayat unions. Explaining that laws with regard to rural and urban local bodies have laid down procedures in this regard, and the authorities will follow them, the official said that if proposals for such changes have been received based on representations from the public or elected representatives, they will be examined across different parameters on their suitability. Also, in some village panchayats that are adjoining ULBs, there may not be any work undertaken under schemes including the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme.
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