- The Grama Sabha shall have the following responsibilities namely: -
- dissemination of information regarding developmental and welfare activities;
- participating in and canvassing of programmes of Health and Literacy and such other time bound developmental programmes;
- collecting essential socio-economic data;
- providing feed back on the performance of development programmes;
- resort to moral sanction to pay taxes, repayment of loans promote environmental cleanliness and to maintain social harmony;
- mobilise local resources to augment resources of the panchayat;
- supervising development activities as volunteer teams and
- make arrangements for reporting urgently incidence of epidemics, natural calamities, etc.
- The Grama Sabha shall make periodical reports to the village panchayats in respect of matters specified in a section 3A
Section 3B Inserted by Act 13 of 1999.