<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="color:#34495e">The functions entrusted to a Panchayat under the Eleventh Schedule to Article 243G of the Constitution are as under:</span></span></p>

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<span style="font-size:14px"><span style="color:#34495e">(i) Agriculture, including agricultural extension. </span></span></p>

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<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="color:#34495e">(ii) Land improvement, implementation of land reforms, land consolidation and soil conservation. </span></span></p>

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<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="color:#34495e">(iii) Minor irrigation, water management and watershed development. </span></span></p>

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<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="color:#34495e">(iv) Animal husbandry, dairying and poultry. </span></span></p>

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<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="color:#34495e">(v) Fisheries. (vi) Social forestry and farm forestry. </span></span></p>

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<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="color:#34495e">(vii) Minor forest produce. </span></span></p>

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<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="color:#34495e">(viii) Small scale industries, including food processing industries. </span></span></p>

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<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="color:#34495e">(ix) Khadi, village and cottage industries. </span></span></p>

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<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="color:#34495e">(x) Rural housing. </span></span></p>

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<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="color:#34495e">(xi) Drinking water. </span></span></p>

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<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="color:#34495e">(xii) Fuel and fodder. </span></span></p>

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<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="color:#34495e">(xiii) Roads, culverts, bridges, ferries, waterways and other means of communication. </span></span></p>

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<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="color:#34495e">(xiv) Rural electrification, including distribution of electricity. </span></span></p>

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<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="color:#34495e">(xv) Non-conventional energy sources. (xvi) Poverty alleviation programme. </span></span></p>

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<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="color:#34495e">(xvii) Education, including primary and secondary schools. </span></span></p>

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<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="color:#34495e">(xviii) Technical training and vocational education. </span></span></p>

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<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="color:#34495e">(xix) Adult and non-formal education.</span></span></p>

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<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="color:#34495e">(xx) Libraries. (xxi) Cultural activities. </span></span></p>

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<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="color:#34495e">(xxii) Markets and fairs. (xxiii) Health and sanitation, including hospitals, primary health centres and dispensaries. </span></span></p>

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<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="color:#34495e">(xxiv) Family welfare. </span></span></p>

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<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="color:#34495e">(xxv) Women and child development. </span></span></p>

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<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="color:#34495e">(xxvi) Social welfare, including welfare of the handicapped and mentally retarded. </span></span></p>

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<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="color:#34495e">(xxvii) Welfare of the weaker sections, and in particular, of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes. </span></span></p>

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<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="color:#34495e">(xxviii) Public distribution system. </span></span></p>

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<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="color:#34495e">(</span></span><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="color:#34495e">xxix) Maintenance of community assets.</span></span></p>