As part of Operation Thoofaan 2.0, on September 28 at 11:00 AM on the inaugural day, Adat Grama Panchayat people's representatives, in the presence of Peramangalam police officials, organized the Thoofaan Pledge, ThoofaThoofaan Warrior Declaration,
Various Responsibilities

🏛️ Official Duties of the Grama Panchayat

Adat Grama Panchayat

Duties

Details of the various essential, general, and sector-wise duties to be performed by the Grama Panchayat under Section 116, Sub-section (1).

27 Essential Duties
14 General Duties
19 Sector-wise Duties
02 Additional Duties

📌 Section 116 — Duties of the Grama Panchayat 

The functional spheres of the Grama Panchayat are organized into essential duties, general duties, sector-wise duties, and additional duties.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES

Main Duties

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🏛️ A — Essential Duties 27 Major Essential Duties 
Duties related to basic public services such as building construction, drinking water, waste management, public spaces, healthcare, roads, and streetlights.

Essential Duties

  1. Regulate building construction.
  2. Protect public spaces from encroachment.
  3. Protect traditional drinking water sources.
  4. Protect ponds and other water reservoirs.
  5. Safeguard waterways and canals under the jurisdiction of the Grama Panchayat.
  6. Collect and dispose of solid waste, and remove and manage liquid waste.
  7. Drain out storm water caused by heavy rains.
  8. Protect and maintain environmental health.
  9. Maintain public markets.
  10. Control vectors of communicable diseases.
  11. Regulate the slaughter of animals, and the sale of meat, fish, and other perishable food items.
  12. Regulate eating establishments and restaurants.
  13. Prevent food adulteration (no licensing issued as per government decision).
  14. Protect roads and other public properties.
  15. Light and maintain streetlights.
  16. Take preventive health and immunization measures.
  17. Effectively implement national and state-level strategies and programs for disease prevention and control.
  18. Establish and protect burial grounds and crematoria.
  19. Issue licenses for dangerous and offensive trades.
  20. Register births and deaths.
  21. Establish bathing ghats and washing ghats.
  22. Arrange ferry services.
  23. Provide parking stands for vehicles.
  24. Construct waiting shelters for passengers.
  25. Regulate the conduct of fairs and festivals.
  26. Issue licenses for pet dogs and eliminate stray dogs.
  27. Perform other legal duties related to the above public duties.
B
🤝 B — General Duties 14 General Duties 
Activities such as data collection, public participation, social awareness, disaster relief, environmental protection, cooperation, and communal harmony.

General Duties

  1. Collect necessary statistical data and keep it updated.
  2. Organize self-help groups and participate in collective activities.
  3. Create awareness against social evils such as alcoholism, drug abuse, dowry, and harassment of women and children.
  4. Ensure maximum public participation at all stages of development.
  5. Organize relief operations during natural calamities.
  6. Create environmental awareness and encourage local action programs for its improvement.
  7. Create cleanliness awareness and encourage local action programs for its improvement.
  8. Develop the cooperative sector.
  9. Improve communal harmony.
  10. Mobilize local resources in cash or kind, including the voluntary surrender of land for developmental needs.
  11. Promote legal awareness among vulnerable sections.
  12. Campaign against economic offenses.
  13. Form neighborhood groups (Ayalkoottams) and self-help groups focusing on the poor.
  14. Create awareness against gossip and slander.

SECTOR-WISE RESPONSIBILITIES

C — Sector-wise Duties

19 major sector-wise duties related to various development sectors of the Grama Panchayat.

I
🌾 Agriculture Agricultural Development and Protection 
Maximum utilization of land, soil conservation, organic production, and agricultural development.

I — Agriculture

  1. Cultivate fallow lands and wasteland areas.
  2. Ensure maximum utilization of land.
  3. Ensure soil conservation.
  4. Promote organic production.
  5. Restore degraded agricultural lands.
  6. Promote cooperative and collective farming ventures.
  7. Promote mechanization of agricultural fields.
  8. Management of Krishi Bhavans.
  9. Promote agricultural development.
  10. Soil conservation.
  11. Seed production.
  12. Farm mechanization.
  13. Management of Krishi Bhavans.
🐄 Animal Husbandry and Dairying Livestock Development • Dairy Sector 
Livestock development, milk production, veterinary hospitals, and preventive health activities.

II — Animal Husbandry and Dairying

  1. Livestock development programs.
  2. Milk production.
  3. Rearing of poultry, bees, pigs, goats, and rabbits.
  4. Run veterinary hospitals.
  5. Run ICDP sub-centers.
  6. Preventive healthcare programs for animals.
  7. Prevent cruelty to animals.
  8. Implement reproductive capacity development programs.
  9. Control zoonotic diseases.
💧 Minor Irrigation Water Conservation • Irrigation Projects 
Implementation and maintenance of minor irrigation projects and water conservation.

III — Minor Irrigation

  1. Maintain and execute all minor irrigation projects coming within the Grama Panchayat area.
  2. Implement and maintain all micro-irrigation projects.
  3. Put water conservation into practice.
🐟 Fisheries Fish Wealth • Fisheries Development 
Development of fisheries, production of fish fingerlings, distribution of equipment, and fishing assistance.

IV — Fisheries

  1. Implement development of fish wealth in ponds, freshwater and brackish water fish farming, and fisheries development.
  2. Expand production and distribution of fish fingerlings.
  3. Distribute fishing equipment.
  4. Provide assistance for fishing.
🌳 Social Forestry Arboriculture • Environment 
Tree planting, wasteland afforestation, and environmental awareness.

V — Social Forestry

  1. Produce fodder trees, firewood trees, and fruit-bearing trees.
  2. Organize tree planting and environmental awareness activities.
  3. Afforest wastelands.
🏭 Small Scale Industries Cottage Industries • Handicrafts 
Development of cottage and rural industries, handicrafts, and traditional industries.

VI — Small Scale Industries

  1. Promote cottage and rural industries.
  2. Promote handicrafts.
  3. Develop traditional and small-scale industries.
🏠 Housing Homeless • Rural Housing Scheme 
Assistance for the homeless, rural housing schemes, and neighborhood group upliftment.

VII — Housing

  1. Identify the homeless and puramboke (government land) dwellers and provide land and houses for housing construction.
  2. Implement rural housing construction schemes.
  3. Implement upliftment programs for neighborhood groups.
🚰 Water Supply Management of Water Supply Schemes 
Management and organization of water supply schemes within the Grama Panchayat.

VIII — Water Supply

  1. Management of water supply schemes within a Grama Panchayat.
  2. Organize water supply schemes within a Grama Panchayat.
💡 Electricity and Energy Streetlights • Biogas 
Install and maintain streetlights and promote the consumption of biogas.

IX — Electricity and Energy

  1. Install and maintain lights on roads.
  2. Promote the consumption of biogas.
📚 Education Schools • Literacy • Library 
Government schools, literacy programs, reading rooms, and libraries.

X — Education

  1. Management of government pre-primary schools, primary schools, and upper primary schools.
  2. Implement literacy programs.
  3. Management and promotion of reading rooms and libraries.
🛣️ Public Works Rural Roads • Buildings 
Construction and maintenance of rural roads, and construction of transferred buildings.

XI — Public Works

  1. Construct and maintain rural roads within a Grama Panchayat.
  2. Undertake building construction, including those transferred from the government.
🏥 Health and Family Welfare Health Centers • Maternal & Child Welfare 
Primary health centers, maternal and child welfare, disease prevention, family welfare, and sanitation.

XII — Health and Family Welfare

  1. Run dispensaries, primary health centers, and sub-centers (including all types of treatment facilities).
  2. Conduct maternal and child welfare activities.
  3. Control disease vectors.
  4. Conduct leprosy eradication activities.
  5. Conduct family welfare activities and programs.
  6. Conduct sanitation activities.
🤲 Social Welfare Anganwadis • Pensions • Unemployment Allowance 
Anganwadis, various social security pensions, and unemployment allowance.

XIII — Social Welfare

  1. Conduct Anganwadis.
  2. Sanction and distribute pensions for destitute persons, widows, persons with disabilities, and agricultural workers.
  3. Provide unemployment allowance.
🌱 Poverty Eradication Employment • Self-Employment • Social Assets 
Identify the poor and implement self-employment, group employment, and social asset schemes.

XIV — Poverty Eradication

  1. Identify the poor.
  2. Implement schemes providing self-employment and group employment opportunities, especially for women from poor families.
  3. Create social assets to ensure continuous support for poor people.
⚖️ Scheduled Caste - Scheduled Tribe Development SC / ST Development Schemes 
SCP and TSP schemes, educational assistance, and infrastructure development.

XV — Scheduled Caste - Scheduled Tribe Development

  1. Implement beneficiary-oriented schemes under SCP and TSP.
  2. Conduct nursery schools for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.
  3. Provide basic infrastructure facilities in Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe settlements.
  4. Provide assistance to Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe students.
  5. Provide need-based assistance to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes whenever required.
⚽ Sports and Cultural Affairs Playgrounds • Cultural Centres 
Construct playgrounds and establish cultural centres.

XVI — Sports and Cultural Affairs

  1. Construct playgrounds.
  2. Establish cultural centres.
🛒 Public Distribution System Essential Commodities • Distribution Centres 
Examine complaints related to the Public Distribution System and provide supervision to Government/Neethi Stores.

XVII — Public Distribution System

  1. Examine and redress complaints against the Public Distribution System.
  2. Provide general supervision and guidance to Government/Neethi Stores distributing essential commodities such as rice and wheat.
  3. Establish distribution centres whenever necessary.
🌪️ Natural Disaster Relief Relief Centres • Rehabilitation 
Maintenance of relief centres and rehabilitation works related to natural disasters.

XVIII — Natural Disaster Relief

  1. Maintain relief centres.
  2. Undertake works related to natural disasters. The respective Panchayats shall carry out works for repairing damages caused to assets.
🤝 Cooperation Cooperative Societies • Strengthening Institutions 
Organize cooperative societies within the Grama Panchayat area and strengthen existing institutions.

XIX — Cooperation

  1. Organize cooperative societies within the boundaries of the Grama Panchayat.
  2. Strengthen existing cooperative institutions.

ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Additional Responsibilities

Additional responsibilities aimed at rural employment, social security, and public interest.

01
👷 Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme Rural Employment • Quality of Life 
A scheme to provide employment to families in rural areas having unskilled workers willing to work.

1. Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme

The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme came into existence on 5 September 2005 with the objective of providing at least 100 days of employment in a financial year (maximum 150 days) to a family in a rural area having unskilled workers willing to work, thereby improving their quality of life.

02
🚫 Prohibition of Sale of Intoxicating Substances Legal Measures • Anti-Drug Activities 
Take necessary measures to prohibit the sale of intoxicating substances and implement the related legal measures.

2. Prohibition of Sale of Intoxicating Substances

Take necessary measures to prohibit the sale of intoxicating substances and implement the related legal measures.

🏛️ Towards Public Welfare — From Responsibilities to Service

The various responsibilities of the Grama Panchayat extend across areas such as public service, infrastructure development, healthcare, social welfare, education, agriculture, environmental protection, employment, disaster relief, and more.

Adatt Grama Panchayat Public Welfare • Development • Public Service