Panchayat samiti ( block ) - Wikipedia Panchayat samiti ( block ) For other uses, see Panchayat ( disambiguation ) India This article is part of a series on the politics and government of India Constitution and law Constitutional amendment Basic structure doctrine Fundamental rights Human rights -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 Uniform civil code Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 Indian Penal Code Law enforcement Government of India President ( Head of state ) Vice president -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Executive : Prime minister ( Head of government ) Union Council of Ministers Cabinet secretary Secretaries : ( Defence Finance Foreign Home ) Civil services All India Services ( IAS IFS / IFoS IPS ) -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Legislature : Parliament Rajya Sabha ( Chairman ) Lok Sabha ( Speaker ) Judiciary : Supreme court ( Chief justice ) High courts ( Chief justices ) District courts Elections Election commission : Chief Election Commissioner ( Election commissioners ) Recent general elections : 2009 2014 2019 Recent state elections : 2017 2018 2019 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Political parties National parties State parties National coalitions : National Democratic Alliance ( NDA ) United Progressive Alliance ( UPA ) Federalism Administrative divisions -- -- -- -- -- -- -- State governments Governor Chief minister Chief secretary ( Principal secretaries ) Field - level officers Divisional commissioners District magistrates Sub-divisional magistrates Legislatures : Vidhan Sabha Vidhan Parishad -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Local governments : Rural bodies : District councils Block panchayats Gram Panchayats Urban bodies : Municipal corporations Municipal councils Nagar panchayats Other countries Atlas Mandals, taluka panchayats, block panchayats, or panchayat samiti are rural local governments ( panchayats ) at the intermediate level in panchayat raj institutions ( PRI ). It has been said to be the `` panchayat of panchayats ''. The 73rd Amendment defines the levels of panchayati raj institution as : District ( or apex ) level Intermediate level Base level They operate at the tehsil ( taluka ) level and govern the villages of the tehsil that together are called a development block. The panchayat samiti is the link between the gram panchayat ( village council ) and the zila parishad ( district board ). The name varies across states : mandal praja parishad in Andhra Pradesh, taluka panchayat in Gujarat, and mandal panchayat in Karnataka. Contents 1 Composition 1.1 Composition of mandal parishads 2 Departments 3 Functions 4 Sources of income 5 Notes Composition Typically, a panchayat samiti is composed of elected members of the area : the block development officer, members of the state 's legislative assembly, members of parliament belonging to that area, otherwise unrepresented groups ( Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and women ), associate members ( such as a farmer, a representative of the cooperative societies and one from the agricultural marketing services sector ) and the elected members of that panchayat block ( tehsil ) on the zila parishad ( district board ). The samiti is elected for five years and is headed by a chairman and deputy chairman elected by the members of the panchayat samiti. One sarpanch samiti supervises the other grampanchayats. It acts as a co-ordinating body between district panchayat and grampanchayat. Composition of mandal parishads A coterminous mandal parishad is constituted for each revenue mandal. A mandal parishad is composed of : Mandal parishad territorial constituency members. Members of the state legislative assembly having jurisdiction over the mandal. Members of the House of the People having jurisdiction over the mandal. Members of the Council of States who are voters in the mandal. One co-opted member, belonging to minorities. Mandal parishad territorial constituency ( MPTC ) members are directly elected by the voters, whereas the mandal president is elected by the MPTC members. The members are elected for a term of five years. The election to MPTCs is done on a party basis. The elections are conducted by the state election commission. The sarpanch es are permanent invitees to the mandal parishad meetings. Departments The most common departments found in a panchayat samiti are : Administration Finance Public works ( especially water and roads ) Agriculture Health Education teacher list Social welfare Information technology Women & child development Panchayat raj ( mandal praja parishad ) Each department in a panchayat samiti has its own officer. Most often these are state government employees acting as extension officers, but occasionally in more revenue - rich panchayat samiti, they may be local employees. A government - appointed block development officer ( BDO ) is the supervisor of the extension officers and executive officer to the panchayat samiti and becomes, in effect, its administrative chief. Functions The panchayat samiti collects all the prospective plans prepared at Gram Panchayat level and process them for funding and implementation by evaluating them from the angles of financial constraints, social welfare, and area development. It also identifies and prioritizes the issues that should be addressed at the block level. Sources of income The income of the panchayat samiti comes from : land and water use taxes, professional taxes, liquor taxes and others income - generating programmes grants - in - aid and loans from the state government and the local zila parishad voluntary contributions For many panchayat samiti, the main source of income is state aid. For others, the traditional taxing function provides the bulk of revenues. Tax revenues are often shared between the gram panchayats and the panchayat samiti. Notes Jump up ^ A textbook : Sudeshna Sengupta ( 2008 ). History & Civics 9. Delhi : Ratna Sagar. p. 51. ISBN 978 - 81 - 8332 - 364 - 2. The Panchayat Samiti (... ) is also referred to as the Community Block and is in fact the Panchayat of Panchayats. Jump up ^ `` National Council Of Educational Research And Training : : Home ''. ^ Jump up to : Sarkar, Siuli ( 2010 ). `` 7.3. 3 Panchayat Samiti ''. Public Administration In India. New Delhi : PHI Learning Private Ltd. pp. 178 -- 180. ISBN 978 - 81 - 203 - 3979 - 8. ^ Jump up to : Singh, Singh Vipul ( 2010 ). `` Section II Civics : Chapter 8 Rural Local Self - Government ''. Longman History & Civics ICSE 9. Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India : Dorling Kindersley ( India ) Private Ltd. p. 265 ). ISBN 978 - 81 - 317 - 2041 - 7. Jump up ^ Arora, Ramesh Kumar ; Goyal, Rajni ( 1995 ). `` Chapter 17 Panchayat Raj : Struggle For Effectiveness ''. Indian Public Administration : Institutions and Issues ( second ed. ). New Delhi : Wishwa Prakashan. pp. 298 -- 300. ISBN 978 - 81 - 7328 - 068 - 9. ^ Jump up to : Singh 2010, p. 264 Jump up ^ `` Section A Civics : Chapter 7 Local Self - Government ''. History & Civics IX ( eighth ed. ). New Delhi : Rachna Sagar Private Ltd. 2011. ISBN 978 - 81 - 8137 - 083 - 9. ^ Jump up to : Madan, G.R. ( 1990 ). `` Chapter 16 Panchayati Raj ''. India 's Developing Villages ( second ed. ). New Delhi : Allied Publishers. p. 343 ). ISBN 978 - 81 - 7023 - 281 - 0. Local government in India Urban Municipal Corporation Nagar Palika ( Municipal Council ) Intermediate Town Panchayat ( Nagar panchayat ) Rural District Panchayat ( Zila Parishad ) Block Panchayat / Taluk Panchayat / Panchayat Samiti / Panchayat Union Gram Panchayat Sarpanch Observance National Panchayati Raj Day Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Panchayat_samiti_(block)&oldid=830623655 '' Categories : Panchayati raj ( India ) Hidden categories : Use Indian English from September 2016 All Wikipedia articles written in Indian English Use dmy dates from September 2016 Pages using div col without cols and colwidth parameters Talk Contents About Wikipedia हिन्दी मराठी Edit links This page was last edited on 15 March 2018, at 23 : 40. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution - ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply. 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Question: at what level does the panchayat samiti exist in india
Answer: local