Answer: (a) Gram Panchayat

Answer: (a) Gram Panchayat was holding its first meeting after election

Answer: (c) Panchayat Head

Answer: (b) Panch

Answer: (a) All members of Gram Sabha

Answer: (a) Government

Answer: (a) Suru river

Answer: (c) Secretary of Gram Sabha

Answer: (b) Below Poverty Line

Answer: (b) Amir Chand

Answer: (a) Very poor person

Answer: (d) All of these

Answer: (a) District Panchayat

Answer: (a) District level

Very Short Answer Type

Question 1.
Describe a Gram Sabha.
Answer:
Gram Sabha:

• Gram Sabha is the institution consisting of all adults who live in the village or villages.
• This could be only one village or a few villages.
• In some states, a village meeting is held for each village.
• Anyone who is 18 years old or more and who has the right to vote is a member of the Gram Sabha.

Panchayati raj Class 6 Extra Questions Short Answer Type Questions

Question 1.
How is Gram Sabha a key factor in making the Gram Panchayat play its role and be responsible.
Answer:

• The Gram Sabha is a key factor in making the Gram Panchayat play its role and be responsible.
• It is the place where all plans for the work of the Gram Panchayat are placed: before the people.
• The Gram Sabha prevents the Panchayat from doing wrong things like misusing money or favouring certain people.
• It plays an important role in keeping an eye on the elected representatives and in making them responsible to the persons who elected them.

Question 2.
In some states Gram Sabhas form committees. Why?
Answer:
In some states Gram Sabhas form committees to carry out specific works.

• Construction committee is formed to carry out the construction work.
• Development committee is engaged in development work.
• These committees are composed of some members of Gram Sabha and some members of the Gram Panchayats.
• They work together to carry out specific tasks.

Question 3.
Enumerate the works of Gram Panchayats? What are the sources of funds of Gram Panchayats?
Answer:
The works of a Gram Panchayat:

• The construction and maintenance of water sources, roads, drainage, school buildings and other common property resources.
• Levying and collecting local taxes.
• Executing government schemes related to generating employment in the village. Sources of funds for the

Gram Panchayat:

• Collection of taxes on houses, market places etc.
• Government scheme funds received through various departments of the government— through the Janpad and Zila Panchayats.
• Donations for community works etc.

Question 4.
Describe the three levels of Panchayats.
Answer:
Panchayati Raj System is a process through which people participate in their own government.
There are three levels of Panchayats:

• Gram Panchayat.
• Block level Panchayat (Janpad Panchayat or Panchayat Samiti)

District Panchayat or Zila Parishad:

• Gram Panchayat: at village level, Panchayat President and ward members.
• Block Level Panchayat (Panchayat Samiti): Numerous village Panchayats as its members.
• Zila Parishad:
• Prepares the developmental plans for the whole district.
• Controls the money distributed to Block and Village Panchayats.

Panchayati raj Class 6 Extra Questions Long Answer Type Questions

Question 1.
Describe the composition of the Gram Panchayat.
Answer:
Composition of the Gram Panchayat:

• Every village Panchayat is divided into wards, i.e., smaller areas.
• Each ward elects a representative who is known as the Ward Member (Panch).
• All the members of the Gram Sabha also elect a Sarpanch who is the Panchayat
  President. ,
• The Ward Panchs and the Sarpanch form the Gram Panchayat.

The Gram Panchayat has a Secretary who is also the Secretary of the Gram Sabha.

• This person is not an elected person but is appointed by the government.
• He is responsible for calling the meeting of the Gram Sabha and Gram Panchayat.
• He also keeps record of the proceedings.

Question 2.

The Gram Sabha meeting begins with the Panchayat President (who is also called the Sarpanch) and the members of the Panchayat (the Panchs) presenting a plan on repairing the road that connects the village to the main highway. After this, the discussion moves to the subject of water and water shortages.

A villager called Tijia begins the meeting by saying, “The water problem in Hardas has become very acute. The handpump water has gone well below the point up to which the ground has been drilled. We hardly get any water in the taps. Women have to go to the Suru river which is 3 k.m. away to get water.” One of the members suggests piping water from the Suru and making an overhead tank in the village to increase the supply. But the others think that this will be expensive. It’s better, they feel, to deepen the handpumps and clean the wells for this season. Tijia says, “This is not enough. We need to do something more permanent as groundwater levels seem to be going down every year. We’re using more water than is seeping into the ground.”

Another member, Anwar then tells everyone that he has seen ways of conserving water and recharging (refilling) it in a village in Maharashtra where he’d once gone to visit his brother. It was called watershed development and he had heard that the government gave money for this work.

In his brother’s village people had planted trees, constructed check-dams and tanks. Everyone thought this was an interesting idea and the Gram Panchayat was asked to find out about it in detail.

1. What is a Gram Sabha?
2. In the meeting of the Gram Sabha so far what are the problems that are being discussed? What sort of solutions are being suggested?

Answer:
1. A Gram Sabha is an institution of the adult village people.

• The people ask the questions.
• The elected representatives answer to these questions.

2. Problems being discussed in the Gram Sabha are:

• Water and water shortage.
• Watershed development – conserving water and recharging the underground water.

Question 3.
The next item on the agenda for the Gram Sabha is the finalisation of list of people below the poverty line (BPL) which had to be approved by the Gram Sabha. As soon as the list is read out people begin to whisper. “Natwar has just bought a colour T.V. and his son has sent him a new motorcycle. How can he be below the poverty line?” Soorajmal mutters to the person sitting next to him. Saroj says to Sukhi Bai “How did Birju’s name get on to the list? He has so much land. This list should have only poor people. And Om Prakctsh is a landless labourer who can barely make ends meet, yet his name is not on the list.” “You know that both Natwar and Birju are friends of Amirchand. Who can counter Amirchand’s power?’ Sukhi Bai says, “Amirchand was the earlier Zamindar (landowner) of the village and still has control over a lot of land. But we should get Om Prakash’s name put in.”

The Sarpanch (Panchayat President) notices people whispering and asks if anyone has anything to say. Saroj tries to provoke Soorajmal to ask about Natwar arid Birju. But he keeps quiet. Amirchand is sitting in the Gram Sabha keeping an eye on everyone. Then Saroj gets up and says that Om Prakash’s name should be in the BPL list. Others agree that he and his family are very poor.

The Sarpanch asks how his name had been missed out. The teacher who did the survey of BPL families says, “Om Prakash’s house was locked when I went there. He may have gone somewhere to look for work.” The Sarpanch gives instructions that Om Prakash’s family income be looked at and if it is less than what has been decided by the government, his name should be included in the list.

1. What is being discussed in this meeting of the Gram Sabha?
2. Who are Natwar and Birju?
3. Who is Om Prakash?
4. Who is Amirchand? What did he do in the past?
5. Why was Om Prakash’s name missed from the BPL list according to the teacher who surveyed the BPL families

Answer:

1. List of BPL families was being discussed in the meeting of the Gram Sabha.
2. Natwar and Birju are affluent people of the village but their names appeared in the list of BPL families because of the interference or manipulation of Sh. Amirchand, a big landlord of the village.
3. Om Prakash is a poor villager. His name was missed from the list of the BPL families.
4. Amirchand was the landlord of the village. He got the names of Natwar and Birju enlisted in the BPL families.
5. According to the teacher who surveyed the BPL families the name of Om Prakash was missed from the list of BPL families as his house was locked at the time of the survey and he could not be listed in the BPL families.

Panchayati raj Class 6 Extra Questions Multiple Choice Questions

Choose the correct answer:

Question 1.
Where do people directly participate and seek answers from their elected representatives?
(a) Gram Panchayat
(b) Parliament House
(c) Both (a) and (b)
(d) None of these
Answer:
Gram Panchayat

Question 2.
Why was the first day special for the village people?
(a) Gram Panchayat was holding its first meeting after election
(b) There was a wedding ceremony
(c) There was annual function of the school
(d) None of these
Answer:
Gram Panchayat was holding its first meeting after election

Question 3.
Who is called the Sarpanch?
(a) Member of Panchayat
(b) Villagers
(c) Panchayat Head
(d) All of these
Answer:
Panchayat Head

Question 4.
The member of Panchayat is also called
(a) Member of Parliament
(b) Panch
(c) Prime Minister
(d) None of these
Answer:
Panch

Question 5.
Who elects the Panchayat Head?
(a) All members of Gram Sabha
(b) Villagers
(c) Secretary
(d) All of these
Answer:
All members of Gram Sabha

Question 6.
Who appoints Secretary of Gram Panchayat?
(a) Government
(b) Ordinary person
(c) Election Commissioner
(d) Landlord of village
Answer:
Government

Question 7.
From where do the village women have to get water?
(a) Suru river
(b) Ganga river
(c) Yamuna river
(d) Gomati river
Answer:
Suru river

Question 8.
Who is responsible for calling the meeting of Gram Sabha?
(a) President of Gram Sabha
(b) Panchs of Gram Panchayat
(c) Secretary of Gram Sabha
(d) None of these
Answer:
Secretary of Gram Sabha

Question 9.
What is the full form of BPL here?
(a) Bharat Petroleum Ltd
(b) Below Poverty Line
(c) Both (a) and (b)
(d) None of these
Answer:
Below Poverty Line

Question 10.
Who was the earlier Zamindar?
(a) Sukhi Bhai
(b) Amir Chand
(c) Birju
(d) Anwar
Answer:
Amir Chand

Question 11.
Whose names should be included, in BPL families?
(a) Very poor person
(b) Middle family person
(c) High income group
(d) All of these
Answer:
Very poor person

Question 12.
What are the works of Gram Panchayat?
(a ) Maintain roads of villages
(b) School buildings in villages
(c) Collecting local taxes
(d) All of these
Answer:
School buildings in villages

Question 13.
What is Zila Parishad?
(a) District Panchayat
(b) Block Panchayat
(c) Gram Sabha
(d) None of these
Answer:
District Panchayat

Question 14.
At which level does Zila Parishad actually make development plans?
(a) District level
(b) Panchayat Samiti
(c) Block level
(d) Government level
Answer:
District level