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Gram Sarkar back to life from July 1

REZAUL KARIM
Gram Sarkar, the lowest and the biggest tier of local government, is set to come into being from July 1.
Some 40,392 Gram Sarkar (village government) units will be formed across the country by mid August. One Gram Sarkar will be constituted in each of 40,392 wards under 4,488 Union Parishads (UP). Gram Sarkar is meant to bridge rural development with mainstream development as an auxiliary body at the grassroots level.
Late president Ziaur Rahman first introduced Gram Sarkar. But it was abolished during Ershad's regime. Later, the Awami League government passed the "Gram Parishad" Act in 1997, but did not introduce it.
Gram Sarkar will be constituted through reviewing the abolished Swanirbhar Gram Sarkar Provision of 1980, the Gram Parishad Act of 1997 and recommendations of a local government commission formed in 1992.
Justifying the move to reintroduce Gram Sarkar, BNP Secretary General and LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan said it would
greatly help to infuse dynamism in the development activities in rural areas and integrate local people in various socio-cultural and development activities.
As per the Gram Sarkar Act, the body will have a five-year tenure. Each ward of a Union Parishad would be a unit of Gram Sarkar.
Gram Sarkar will be an auxiliary of union parishad and elected UP members will be chief of Gram Sarkar. One female elected UP member will be advisor to three Gram Sarkar units.
The 13-member body will have
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Gram Sarkar Prodhan (chief), three women representatives (one must be a member of the trained Village Defence Party), two farmers, one male VDP member, one worker representative, two farm worker representatives, one freedom fighter, one teacher and one businessman.
Besides, officials from various departments of the government, financial institutions, co-operative societies, ansars and NGOs will be in the body as representative members, but they will have no voting right.
Gram Sarkar would assist the Union Parishad by implementing various development and social projects. These include growing more food, reducing illiteracy and spreading education, arranging sports and cultural functions, facilitating family planning and ensuring supply of safe drinking water and sanitation.
Besides, it will ensure primary health care, gathering birth, death, marriage and divorce related information and assist the Union Parishad in tree plantation, preservation of environment and cleanliness, formation of cooperatives and augmenting pisciculture, poultry farming and so on.
It will also assist the Union Parishad to maintain law and order and supervise VGF and VGD activities. The Union Parishad will provide a part of its income to Gram Sarkar to carry out its activities.