**CHAPTER II** **GRAM SABHA- Constitution of Panchayats**
** * **3. Declaration of Panchayat areas and establishment of Panchayats.-*(1) After making such inquiry as may be necessary, the Government may, by notification, declare a local area, comprising of a village or a group of villages or any part or parts thereof, or a combination of any two or more of them to be a Panchayat area for the purposes of this Act and also specify its headquarters. * * **Suggested amendments** * **3. Declaration of Panchayat areas and establishment of Panchayats* (1) The Collector shall, by notification in the District Gazette, declare a local area comprising a village to be a Panchayat area. Wherever a group of villages consisting of more than one village has been declared as a Gram Panchayat under the existing law, the same shall be renotified and each village, irrespective of its population, shall be declared as a separate Panchayat area. Provided that if affected villages, through special Gram Sabha resolution, demand that one or more villages should be clubbed together as one Gram Sabha, the Collector shall by a notification, within a month of receipt of such resolutions from all affected Gram Sabhas, so notify the same. **Pesentation of proposed amendments made of Panchayat Raj Act, 1994 by Shri Arvind Kejriwal on 13th Oct, 2010 The Goa Law Commission has organised a at Seminar Hall , Secretariat, Porvorim.* * * **Visit :** http://panchayatamendment.blogspot.com/ -- With Regards Sanjay Vinayak Barve (0832) 2451143/9403176657
