EXTRACTS OF ORISSA GRAMA PANCHAYAT ACT,1964
2. (f-1) "Election Commission" means the State Election Commission consisting of State Election Commissioner appointed by the Governor under Article 243K of the Constitution.
(O-1) "Parishad" in relation to any Grama means the Zilla Parishad constituted under the Orissa Zilla Parishad Act, 1991 and having jurisdiction over the area comprised within the Grama.
(p) "population" means population as ascertained in the last preceding census of which the relevant figures have been published under the relevant law for the time being in force;
(t) "Samiti" in relation to any Grama the Panchayat Samiti constituted under the Orissa Panchayat Samiti Act, 1959 and having jurisdiction over the area comprised within the said Grama.
(t-1) "Scheduled Area" means the Scheduled Areas as referred to in clause (1) of article 244 of the Constitution.
3. (1) The State Government may for the purposes of this Act by declaration notified in the Gazette constitute any village or group of contiguous villages as a Grama and assign to such Grama, a name which shall be of one of the villages comprised within the Grama.
Explanation – Village intervened only by forest areas, hills, streams, rivers and such other natural barriers and lands not forming part of any village may be treated as contiguous villages.
Provided that in the Scheduled Areas, a Grama shall ordinarily consist of a habitation or a group of habitations or a hamlet or a hamlet or a group of hamlets comprising a community or communities and managing its affairs in accordance with traditions and customs.
(2) Whenever the State Government deem it fit so to do they may cancel any notification in respect of a Grama under sub-section(1) or may alter the area comprised in a Grama by reducing or adding to the number of villages comprised within such Grama and by declaration notified in the Gazette constitute such altered area or areas as a Grama or Gramas, as the case may be, for the purposes of the said sub-section.
(3) No Grama shall, so far as may be reasonably practicable, be constituted with a population of less than two thousands and more than t