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LOCAL GOVERNMENT
The local government structure goes right up to the district level. A few gram panchayats are grouped together to form what is usually called a panchayat samiti or block or mandal. The members of this representative body are elected by all the panchayat members in that arca. All the panchayat samitis or mandals in a district together constitute the zilla (district) parishad. Most members of the zilla parishad are clected. Members of the Lok Sabha and MLAs of that district and some other officials of other district level bodies are also its members. Zilla parishad chairperson is the
political head of the zilla parishad. Similarly, local government bodies exist for urban areas as well. Municipalities are set up in towns. gi.ig cities are .Conslilulcd into municipal corporations. Both municipalities and municipal corporations are controlled by clected bodies consisting of people’s representatives. Municipal chairperson is the political head of the municipality. In a municipal corporation, such an officer is called the mayor. This new system of local government is the largest experiment in democracy conducted anywhere in the world.
Explain the relationship between Gram Panchayats and Panchayat Samitis.
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Solution and Explanation
2. Administrative Link: Panchayat Samitis coordinate development programs and allocate funds to Gram Panchayats for local governance.
How is the structure of Municipal Corporation different from a Municipality?
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Solution and Explanation
2. Municipality: Governs smaller towns and cities, led by a Chairperson, with fewer administrative responsibilities.
How does the local government structure promote democracy? Examine.
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Solution and Explanation
2. Participation of People: Villagers and urban residents elect representatives, ensuring democratic governance.
3. Efficient Public Service Delivery: Local bodies address region-specific issues, improving governance efficiency.
Top Questions on Reading Comprehension
- My Last French Lesson! Why, I hardly knew how to write! I should never learn any more! I must stop there, then! Oh, how sorry I was for not learning my lessons, for seeking birds' eggs or going sliding on the Saar! My books, that had seemed such a nuisance a while ago, so heavy to carry, my grammar, and my history of the saints, were old friends now that I couldn't give up and M. Hamel, too; the idea that he was going away, that I should never see him again, made me forget all about his ruler and how cranky he was.
Poor man! It was in honour of this last lesson that he had put on his fine Sunday clothes, and now I understood why the old men of the village were sitting there in the back of the room. It was because they were sorry, too, that they had not gone to school more. It was their way of thanking our master for his forty years of faithful service and of showing their respect for the country that was theirs no more.
(The Last Lesson)- CBSE CLASS XII - 2025
- English Core
- Reading Comprehension
- Read the following extracts and answer the questions
Those were the days of mainly indoor shooting, and only five percent of the film was shot outdoors. I suppose the sets and studio lights needed the girls and boys to be made to look ugly in order to look presentable in the movie. A strict hierarchy was maintained in the make-up department. The chief make-up man made the chief actors and actresses ugly, his senior assistant the 'second' hero and heroine, the junior assistant the main comedian and so forth. The players who played the crowd were the responsibility of the office boy. (Even the make-up department of the Gemini Studio had an 'office boy')
On the days when there was crowd-shooting, you could see him mixing his paint in a giant vessel and slapping it on the crowd players. The idea was to close every pore on the surface of the face in the process of applying make-up.- CBSE CLASS XII - 2025
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- Mr. Lamb:
When I go down the streets, the kids shout 'Lamey Lamb'. But they will come into the garden, into my... they be? Because I'm not afraid of them, that's why not.
Derry:
Did you get your leg blown off in the war?
Mr. Lamb:
Certainly.
Derry:
How will you climb on a ladder and get the crab apples down, then?
Mr. Lamb:
Oh, there's a lot of things I've learned to do and plenty of time for it. Yours. I take it steady. (On the Face of It)- CBSE CLASS XII - 2025
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- If we were not so single-minded
about keeping our lives moving,
and for once could do nothing,
perhaps a huge silence
might interrupt this sadness
of never understanding ourselves with death.
Perhaps the Earth can teach us
as when everything seems dead
and later proves to be alive.
Now I'll count up to twelve
And you keep quiet and I will go.
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Questions Asked in CBSE X exam
आप नव्या / भव्य हैं। विद्यालय में नामांकन के समय आपकी जन्मतिथि गलत दर्ज हो गई है। दसवीं के पंजीकरण से पहले आप इसे सुधरवाना चाहते हैं। जन्मतिथि में सुधार हेतु निवेदन करते हुए प्रधानाचार्य को लगभग 80 शब्दों में एक ई-मेल लिखिए।
- CBSE Class X - 2025
- पत्र लेखन
आप अदिति / आदित्य हैं। आपकी दादीजी को खेलों में अत्यधिक रुचि है। ओलंपिक खेल-2024 में भारत के प्रदर्शन के बारे में जानकारी देते हुए लगभग 100 शब्दों में पत्र लिखिए।
- CBSE Class X - 2025
- पत्र लेखन
Name the part performing the following functions in the human female reproductive system:
(i) Production of eggs
(ii) Site of fertilization
(iii) Site of implantation
(iv) Entry of the sperms- CBSE Class X - 2025
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- CBSE Class X - 2025
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