The Orissa

Gazette

EXTRAORDINARY
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
No. 156, CUTTACK, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2009 / MAGHA 21, 1930
LAW DEPARTMENT
NOTIFICATION
The 10th February 2009
No. 2219/I-Legis.52/08The following Act of the Orissa Legislative Assembly
having been assented to by the Governor on the 3rd February, 2009 is hereby published
for general information.
ORISSA ACT 7 OF 2009
THE ORISSA GRAMA PANCHAYATS (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2008
AN ACT FURTHER TO AMEND THE ORISSA GRAMA PANCHAYATS ACT, 1964.

BE it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Orissa in the

Fifty-ninth Year of the Republic of India as follows:
Short title.
Amendment
of section
122.

1. This Act may be called the Orissa Grama Panchayats

(Amendment) Act, 2008.
2. In the Orissa Grama Panchayats Act, 1964, in section 122,
(a) for sub-section (2) including Explanation thereto, the
following sub-section shall be substituted, namely:

Orissa Act
1 of 1965.

(2) The V.L.Ws working in a district shall, for the purpose of subsection (1), act as Executive Officers within the local area of such Grama
or Gramas as may be assigned to them by the Collector.
Explanation.For the purpose of sub-section (2), the expression
V.L.Ws means Village Level Workers appointed by the Collector for
implementing different developmental schemes relating to different levels
of Panchayats in the State.;and
(b) for sub-section (3), the following sub-section shall be
substituted, namely:
(3) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (1), the Executive
Officer shall function under the control and supervision of the Grama
Panchayat..
By order of the Governor
B. K. NAYAK
Principal Secretary to Government
Printed and published by the Director of Printing, Stationery and Publication, Orissa, Cuttack-10
OGP/SBP.,
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