(1) The Gram Panchayat shall prepare in the prescribed manner a report on the work done during the previous year and the work proposed to be done during the following year and submit to the prescribed authority to the Panchayat Samity concerned within the prescribed time.
(2)The Gram Panchayat shall , in October and April every year, prepare a half yearly report showing the amount received by the Gram Panchayat during the previous half year from different sources 1 Sub-section (4) of Section 27 and the proviso thereto have been substituted by The Tripura Panchayats (Second Amendment) Act, 1998 2 Inserted by The Tripura Panchayat (First Amendment) Act, 1994 3 The two provisos to sub-section 5 has been deleted by The Tripura Panchayat (First Amendment) Act, 1994 4 Substituted by The Tripura Panchayat (Second Amendment) act, 2003 Transaction of business at Panchayat meetings Meeting of Gram Sabha Report on the work of Gram Panchayat 29 including the pending balance and the amount actually spent on different items of work and a list of functionaries.
(3) The Gram Panchayat shall , immediately after the preparation of the report and the list referred to in sub-section (2), publish the same in the office of the Gram Panchayat for information of the general public.
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CHAPTER- III Powers and Duties of Gram Panchayat
31. Subject to such conditions as may be prescribed, it shall be the duty of Obligatory every Gram Panchayat, so far as its funds may allow, to make reasonable provisions with in the area under its jurisdiction for---
(a) Sanitation, conservancy and the prevention of public nuisances;
(b) curative and preventive measure in respect of malaria, small pox, cholera or any other epidemic diseases;
(c) supply of drinking water and the cleaning of public streets and protection therof ;
(d) the maintenance, repair and construction of public streets and protection thereof;
(e) the removal of encroachments of public streets or public places;
(f) the protection and repair of buildings and other property vested in it;
(g) the management and care of public tanks, common grazing grounds, burning ghats and public graveyards;
(h) the supply of any local information which the District Magistrate, the Zilla Parishad, the Panchayat Samity or the Sub-Divisional Officer, within the local limits of whose jurisdiction the Gram Panchayat is situated, may require;
(i) Organising voluntary labour for community works for the upliftment of its area;
(j) the control and administration of the Gram Panchayat Fund establishment under this Act;
(k) the imposition, assessment and collection of the taxes, rates or fees leviable under this Act; and
(l) the performance of such functions as may be transferred to it under Section 31 of the Cattle Trespass Act, 1871.