Oath ceremony of village heads and ward members have completed in the district.

Chamoli: In district Chamoli, the oath ceremony of village heads and member Gram Panchayats was organized at all the block headquarters in order of the orders of the State Election Commission, on Wednesday, 160 gram Pradhan (village head) of the district took oath of office and secrecy. During this time, 874 member Gram Panchayats of the district also took oath.

Ramesh Chandra Tripathi, District Panchayati Raj Officer said that the election process was completed for 609 Gram Pradhan posts in comparison to a total of 615 Pradhan Gram Panchayat posts in the district. Out of which only 167 Gram Panchayats have been organized in the district. In such a situation, 160 Pradhans and 874 members have been sworn in on Wednesday.

He said that the Gram Pradhans of the other 7 organized Gram Panchayats of the district could not be sworn in due to some reasons. Soon, the program will be rescheduled and the remaining Gram Pradhans will also be sworn in on office and secrecy. In the organised oath ceremony, there have 20 Pradhans of block Dasholi, 7 of Jyotirmath, 16 of Pokhari, 4 of Nandanagar, 23 of Karnaprayag, 29 of Gairsain, 30 of Narayanbagh, 19 of Tharali, 12 of Dewal taken oath.

What is an organized Gram Panchayat? Where at least two-thirds of the Gram Panchayat members including the gram Pradhan (village head) are elected, they are called organized Gram Panchayats.

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