Ministry of Law and Justice (Government of India)

This document provides the details of The Constitution (Seventy-Fourth Amendment) Act.

The document includes:

• The short title and commencement
• Definitions of the terms in the Act
• Constitution of Municipalities
• Composition of the Municipalities
• Constitution and composition of wards committees
• Reservation of seats
• Duration of Municipalities
• Disqualifications for membership
• Powers, authority and responsibilities of municipalities
• Finance Commission
• Audit of accounts of Municipalities
• Elections to the Municipalities
• Application to Union Territories
• Committee for district planning
• Committee for metropoliton planning 
• Continuance of existing laws and municipalities
• Bar to interference by courts in electoral matters

This document provides the amendments in the definitions of terms used in the Constitution of India and includes the details of:

• The Panchayats
• The GramSabha
• Constitution of the Panchayats
• Composition of the Panchayats
• Duration of the Panchayats
• Disqualifications for membership
• Powers, authority and responsibilities of the Panchayat
• Powers to impose taxes by, and Funds of the Panchayats
• Constitution of Finance Commission to review financial position.

The act to provide for the establishment of River Boards for the regulation and development of inter-state rivers and river valleys empowers the Central Government, on a request received in this behalf from a State Government or otherwise, by notification in the Official Gazette, to establish a River Board for advising the Governments interested in relation to such matters concerning the regulation or development of an inter-State river or river valley or any specified part thereof.