Definitions.

¹In this Part, unless the context otherwise requires,—

(a)“district” means a district in a State;

(b)“Gram Sabha” means a body consisting of persons registered in the electoral rolls relating to a village comprised within the area of Panchayat at the village level;

(c)“intermediate level” means a level between the village and district levels specified by the Governor of a State by public notification to be the intermediate level for the purposes of this Part;

(d)“Panchayat” means an institution (by whatever name called) of self-government constituted under article 243B, for the rural areas;

(e)“Panchayat area” means the territorial area of a Panchayat;

(f)“Population” means the population as ascertained at the last preceding census of which the relevant figures have been published;

(g)“village” means a village specified by the Governor by public notification to be a village for the purposes of this Part and includes a group of villages so specified.

Footnotes (from the official text)

¹ Original Part IX relating to "The territories in Part D of the First Schedule and other territories not specified in that Schedule" was omitted by the Constitution (Seventh Amendment) Act, 1956, s. 29 and Sch. (w.e.f. 1-11-1956) and subsequently ins. by the Constitution (Seventy-third Amendment) Act, 1992, s. 2 (w.e.f. 24-4-1993).