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9. Village Panchayats
There are 12,620 Village Panchayats in the State spread across the 30 districts and the 385 Blocks. The average number of Village Panchayats per district is 421 and per Block is 32. The Nilgiris (35), Kanniyakumari (99), Theni (130) and Karur (158) are some of the districts with fewer Village Panchayats while Villupuram (1104), Tiruvannamalai (860), Vellore (753), Cuddalore (683) and Kancheepuram (648) are some of the districts with a large number of Village Panchayats. As can be seen from Table 5, the population of Village Panchayats in Tamil Nadu is widely varying with some Village Panchayats having populations even below 500 while others have populations exceeding 25,000.
* In addition to the 681 Village Panchayats in Cuddalore District, two more Village Panchayats viz. Perumathur and Indira Nagar have been newly constituted in Kurinjipadi Panchayat Union and have started functioning from 18.8.2008.
Table- 5
Classification of Village Panchayats on the basis of Population
(2001 Census)
Sl.No.
Population
No. of Village
Panchayats
1
Below 500
66
2
501-1,000
1,177
3
1,001-3,000
7,241
4
3,001-5,000
2,571
5
5001-10,000
1,379
6
Above 10,000
186
Total
12,620
Among the three tiers, Village Panchayats assume a pre-eminent role in view of the wide variety of civic duties and other functions entrusted to them under Sections 110 and 111 of the Tamil Nadu Panchayats Act, 1994. This Government have always taken efforts to empower the Village Panchayats further in order to enable them to perform their functions in an effective manner. Various efforts have been taken by this Government to improve the finances of the Village Panchayats.
Since the Village Panchayats in Tamil Nadu vary widely in population from below 500 to above 25,000 and as the devolution of State Finance Commission grant is mostly linked to population, the smaller Village Panchayats got less grant and the bigger Village Panchayats got more. While the needs of the bigger Village Panchayats are also greater, it is a fact that there are certain fixed costs associated with the running of a Village Panchayat irrespective of the size and the SFC grant to a Village Panchayat should be sufficient to cover at least the fixed costs, if not the variable costs. There were cases where some Village Panchayats found it difficult to pay their electricity bills on time; a few couldn’t pay the salaries and wages of their employees on time. The State Finance Commission recommended the earmarking of certain percentage of the SFC grant as ‘Equalisation Fund’ to assist such weaker Village Panchayats. But past experience showed that the allocation of the Equalisation Fund by Collectors was by discretion which introduced a certain element of arbitrariness.
The Government have thus passed G.O.Ms.No.199 Finance (Finance Commission – IV) Department dated 25.5.07 wherein a floor amount of Rs.3 lakh has been earmarked for each Village Panchayat irrespective of the population and only after the apportionment of this amount, the remaining amount is distributed among the Village Panchayats in proportion to population. By virtue of this decision of the Government, the huge disparity in the income of the Village Panchayats has been reduced and at the same time weaker Village Panchayats have been empowered further towards self-sustainable.
The Government have also vide G.O.Ms.No.19 R.D. & P.R.(C2) Dept. dated 26.02.2007 decided to allocate the entire Twelfth Finance Commission grant to the Village Panchayats alone as can be seen in Table-6 given underneath:
Table- 6
Income-wise Classification of Village Panchayats
Sl. No
Income Range
No. of Village Panchayats based on the average income of 3 years from
2003-04 to 2005-06
No. of Village Panchayats after release of Minimum SFC Grant (Based on the income in 2009-10)
Upto Rs.50,000
10
0
Rs.50,000 to Rs.1 lakh
178
0
Rs.1 lakh to Rs. 5 lakhs
7,422
1,021
Rs. 5 lakhs to Rs 10 lakhs
3,181
7,146
Rs. 10 lakhs to Rs. 25 lakhs
1,489
3,902
Rs.25 lakhs to Rs.50 lakhs
252
393
Rs.50 lakhs to Rs. 1 crore
60
121
Rs.1 crore to Rs.3 crores
24
32
Above Rs.3 crores
2
3
Total
12,618
12,618
It is, hence, seen that the average income levels have not only increased for majority of the Village Panchayats but also the inequity of the income levels amongst various Village Panchayats has decreased due to the steps taken by the Government.
9.1. Functions