The tenure of administrators looking after the work of Gram Panchayats in the state has ended. A situation of constitutional crisis has arisen due to no ordinance being issued yet regarding the tenure of administrators. At the same time, the tenure of administrators of area panchayats is also ending on Friday. Amidst all this, Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami said that the government is fully prepared for the Panchayat elections. Talking to the media on Thursday, the Chief Minister said that the State Election Commission will decide the schedule of Panchayat elections. Panchayat elections will be held as per the scheduled program. The tenure of three-tier Gram Panchayats in 12 districts of the state (except Haridwar) ended in November and December last year. Due to the lack of election situation, the government handed them over to the administrators. The responsibility of administrators was entrusted to the Gram Pradhan, Area Panchayat Chief and District Panchayat Presidents. According to the Panchayat Act, administrators can be appointed in the Panchayats only for six months. In this situation, the tenure of administrators of Gram Panchayats ended on Wednesday. Due to this, 7478 Gram Panchayats have become administrator-less. Gram Panchayats cannot remain without administrators even for a day. In such a situation, a situation of constitutional crisis has arisen.
The tenure of the administrators of the area panchayats is ending on Friday, May 30 and the tenure of the administrators of the district panchayats is ending on June 2. Due to the lack of a situation for panchayat elections right now, the government decided to amend the Panchayati Raj Act to make the tenure of administrators in panchayats up to one year. For this, an ordinance was prepared by the department and sent to the Raj Bhavan on Wednesday. It is still awaiting approval from the Raj Bhavan. Till the time of writing the news, the ordinance had not been approved by the Raj Bhavan.
