Block Pramukh(president)

Block Pramukh(president) are Panchayats at Apex or District Level in Panchayat Raj Institutions (or PRIs).

The 73rd Amendment is about Rural Local Governments (which are also known as Panchayati Raj Institutions or PRIs) [1]

The Block Pramukh(president) of Panchayat Samiti (Block) is tier of panchayat raj system. It is a rural local government body at the tahsil (taluka) level in India. It works for the villages of the tahsil 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). There are a number of variations in the name of this institution in the various states. For example, it is known as Chetra Panchayat in Uttar Pradesh, Mandal Praja Parishad in Andhra Pradesh, Taluka Panchayat in Gujarat, and Mandal Panchayat in Karnataka.

Typically, a panchayat samiti is composed of elected members of the area, and the Block Development Officer, otherwise unrepresented members (representatives of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and women), associate members (such as a farmer of the area, 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 Block Pramukh(President) elected by the members of the panchayat samiti.

The most common departments found in a panchayat samiti are:

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, these 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 over all operations.

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