Question

State who has first implemented 73^rd Constitutional Amendment ?
1. Madhya Pradesh
2. Punjab
3. Andhra Pradesh
4. Rajasthan

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 1 : Madhya Pradesh

The correct answer is Madhya Pradesh.

• Madhya Pradesh was the first state to implement the 73rd Constitutional Amendment 1992.
• The Constitution (73rd Amendment) Act, 1992 has anthologized a new part IX consisting of 16 Articles and the Eleventh Schedule to the Constitution.
• The 73rd Amendment envisages the Gram Sabha as the backbone of the Panchayat Raj System to perform functions and powers entrusted to it by the State Legislatures.
• The amendment endows for a three-tier Panchayat Raj System at the village, intermediate and district levels.
• Articles 243A endue that the Gram Sabha may exercise such power and execute such functions at the village level as the Legislature of a State may by law
  provide.
• The 73rd amendment thus confronts the Gram Sabha as the foundation of the Panchayat Raj System.

• “Gram Sabha” means a body consisting of the person entitled in the electoral rolls comprised within the area of Panchayat at the village level.
• In the Panchayat Raj System Gram Sabha is the only stable unit.
• The duration of Panchayat i.e. Mukhiyas and other members of Panchayat last for 5 years only from the date determined for the first meeting, but the villagers do not change.