panchayat
IPA: pˈæntʃˈaɪʌt
noun
- (South Asia, chiefly India) A village council or local government.
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Examples of "panchayat" in Sentences
- Ravulapalli is the another of the panchayats.
- The panchayat would be Pathanapuram panchayat.
- She is declared chaste by the village Panchayat.
- (A panchayat is a five-person elected village council.)
- The Gram Panchayat is the foundation of the Panchayat System.
- The Sarpanch or Chairperson is the head of the Gram Panchayat.
- My brother in law is a panchayat member of the Martalli panchayat.
- The bank caters the financial need of the Farmers in Ulickal Panchayat.
- Pinarayi grama panchayat was chosen as the best panchayat in the district.
- The Panchayat Samiti is the link between the Gram Panchayat and Zilla Parishad.
- The first Shariat panchayat of Punjab scheduled to be inaugurated on 3 March 2013.
- The last time we had met the C.O., he released a measly sum of Rs. 2000 to each panchayat, which is not enough even for tea and snacks chai-nashta.
- Many of them now wield enough backdoor political clout to ignore pollution control rules, members of the 'panchayat' or local village assembly say.
- Rau Nagar two years ago with the traditional Indian mat of "panchayat," or local justice, when nobody else would address a flagrant case of wife-beating.
- Tankadhar's village falls under Lapanga gram panchayat which is surrounded by industrial units whose dependency on ground water has gone up in recent times.
- Bhiwani (Haryana): A community 'panchayat' on Sunday asked the family of a man, who it claims had married within the same gotra, to leave its village within a week and sell its property in three months.
- Brinda Adige, daughter of an Air Force officer and wife of a businessman, entered Lakshman Rau Nagar two years ago with the traditional Indian mat of "panchayat," or local justice, when nobody else would address a flagrant case of wife-beating.
- ALAPPUZHA: The Mannancherry grama panchayat, which is all set to be declared a village with no fallow land on Saturday, is in a festive mood what with delegates from several other panchayats and students from the Kerala Agricultural University coming down to witness the declaration.
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