Question

Discuss briefly the importance of the gram sabha

Answer 1

The Gram Sabha is a meeting of all adults who live in the area covered by the Panchayat. Anyone living in the area, who is an adult, that is 18 years old or more, is a member of Gram Sabha. ... Together the Sarpanch and Panchs form a Gram Panchayat. AGram Panchayat is elected for five years.

Answer 2

Importance of Gram Panchayat

The Gram Panchayat has many important functions to perform.

It plays an important role at providing some benefits for the community life of the rural people.

Some of the functions are meant for improving the economic life of the rural people.There are other functions through which attempts are made to provide social justice to people.

It is the duty of the Gram Panchayat to look after

the village health and sanitation system,to take preventive measures for resisting the spread of infectious diseases,to arrange for drinking water,building of new roads and repairing the old one,to reserve and maintain ponds,pasture-lands,cremation ground andgraveyards etc. for public use.

Gram Panchayat further plays important role  in :

the arrangement of street lights,tree plantation,digging of wells and ponds etc.to perform various cultural activities and encourage various types of games and sports,to supply food grains and other essential goods,welfare activities and other social welfare works for the disabled people,to look after old and powerless and helpless people,to do various welfare activities for the Scheduled castes and Scheduled tribes,to rehabilitate the homeless peoples,to impart primary,social, technical,vocational education,adult education and non-formal education,to look after agriculture and its expansion,preservation of public property,encouraging co-operative farming,to arrange employment opportunities in industries and other areas,to build the village markets and preserve them,creation of different types of industries,animal husbandry, fishery,to establish libraries and conduct them properly,revival of the fallow land,to arrange adequate irrigation facilities and arranging different poverty eradication programs etc.