Standing Committees @ Zilla Panchayath

Zilla Panchayath will have Five Standing Committees. The Standing Committees shall perform the functions mentioned below to the extent that the Zilla Panchayat delegates powers to them. The Committees shall perform in respect of matters assigned to them such additional duties as may be prescribed.

• General Standing Committee

• Finance, Audit and Planning Committee

• Social Justice Committee

• Educational and Health Committee

• Agricultural and Industries Committee

Functions of the General Standing Committees :

• The General Standing Committee shall perform  functions relating to the establishment matters and functions relating to communications, buildings, rural housing, village extensions, relief against the natural calamities and allied matters and all miscellaneous residuary matters.

Functions of the Finance and Planning Committee :

• The finance of the Zilla Panchayat framing of budgets, scrutinising proposals for increase of revenue, examination of receipts and expenditure statements, consideration of all proposals affecting the finances of the Zilla Panchayat and general supervision of the revenue and expenditure of the Zilla Panchayat;

• The plan priorities, allocation of outlays to developments, horizontal and vertical linkages, implementation of guidelines issued by the Government, regular review of planned programmes, evaluation of important programmes and small savings schemes.

Functions of the Social Justice Committee :

• Promotion of educational, economic, social, cultural and other interests of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and Backward Classes;

• Protecting them from social injustice and all other forms exploitation;

• Amelioration of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, Women and other weaker sections of the society.

• Securing social justice to the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, Women and other weaker sections of the society.

Functions of the Education and Health Committee :

• Be in-charge of all educational activities of the Zilla Panchayat;

• Undertake the planning of education in the district within the framework of the national policy and the national and State plans;

• Survey and evaluate the educational activities of the Zilla Panchayat;

• Perform such other duties pertaining to education, adult literacy and cultural activities as the Zilla Panchayat may assign to it;

• Health services, hospitals, water supply, family welfare and other allied matters.

Functions of the Agriculture and Industry Committee :

• Agricultural production, animal husbandry, co-operation, contour bunding and reclamation;

• Village and cottage industries;

• Promotion of industrial development of the district.