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  2. Local government in Kerala - Wikipedia

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    Kerala is a state on the southwestern coast of India. It is known for its high literacy rate, low infant mortality rate, and long life expectancy. Kerala has also been a pioneer in the field of decentralization and participatory local democracy. In 1994, the Kerala government enacted the Kerala Panchayat Raj Act and the Kerala Municipality Act.

  3. Common Service Centres - Wikipedia

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    Online Bill Payments; Telelaw; CSC 2.0 Scheme. Based on the assessment of CSC scheme, the Government launched the CSC 2.0 scheme in 2015 to expand the outreach of CSCs to all Gram Panchayats across the country. Under CSC 2.0 scheme, at least one CSC will be set up in each of the 2.5 lakh GPs across the country by 2019.

  4. Gram panchayat - Wikipedia

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    Gram panchayat. Panchayat ( transl. 'village council') is a basic governing institution in Indian villages. It is a political institution, acting as the cabinet of a village or group of villages. The Gram Sabha works as the general body of the Gram Panchayat. The members of the gram panchayat are elected directly by the people.

  5. Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005

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    Gram Panchayats - governing heads in rural villages, were the envoy for implementing the scheme at the local level. Provisions. The registration process involves an application to the Gram Panchayat and issue of job cards. The wage employment must be provided within 15 days of the date of application.

  6. Pradhan Mantri Gramin Awas Yojana - Wikipedia

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    Pradhan Mantri Gramin Aawas Yojana ( lit. 'Prime Minister's Rural Housing Scheme' ), previously Indira Awas Yojana ( lit. ' Indira 's Housing Scheme' ), is a social welfare programme, created by the Indian Government, to provide housing for the rural poor in India. [1] A similar scheme for urban poor was launched in 2015 as Housing for All by 2022.

  7. Primary Agricultural Credit Society - Wikipedia

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    Primary Agricultural Credit Society. Founder. Government of India. Location. India. Affiliations. Cooperative Societies India. A Primary Agricultural Credit Society (PACS) is a basic unit and smallest co-operative credit institutions in India. [1] It works on the grassroots level ( gram panchayat and village level).

  8. Sarpanch - Wikipedia

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    A sarpanch, gram pradhan, mukhiya, or president is a decision-maker, elected by the village-level constitutional body of local self-government called the gram sabha (village government) in India. [1] The sarpanch, together with other elected panchayat members (referred to as ward panch ), constitute gram panchayats and zilla panchayats.

  9. District council (India) - Wikipedia

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    District council (India) The Zila Panchayat or District Development Council or Zilla Parishad or District Panchayat or is the third tier of the Panchayati Raj system and functions at the district levels in all states. A Zila Parishad is an elected body representing the entire rural area of a district. A District Panchayat is headed by a ...