Gram Panchayat Elections 2015: Sahyadri Venue for Casting Votes
The State Election Commission (SEC) on Tuesday announced that elections to 5,844 gram panchayats (GPs) in the State will be held tomorrow, May 29, 2015. Sahyadri College of Engineering & Management is one of the centres for casting votes.
The Panchayati Raj is a South Asian political system found mainly in the nations of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal. It is the oldest system of local government in the Indian subcontinent. The word "panchayat" literally means "assembly" (ayat) of five (panch) wise and respected elders chosen and accepted by the local community. However, there are different forms of assemblies. Traditionally, these assemblies settled disputes between individuals and villages. Modern Indian government has decentralized several administrative functions to the local level, empowering elected gram panchayats. Gram panchayats are not to be confused with the extra-constitutional khap panchayats (or caste panchayats) found in some parts of Northern India.
Panchayati Raj is a system of governance in which gram panchayats are the basic unit of administrations. It has 3 levels: Gram panchayat (village level), Mandal Parishad or block samiti or panchayat samiti (block level) and Zila parishad (district level).
The term "panchayati raj" is an ancient concept that has been adopted by the people of Bharat for their local administration of a village. Raj means "rule". Mahatma Gandhi advocated Panchayati Raj, a decentralized form of Government where each village is responsible for its own affairs, as the foundation of India's political system. The term for such a vision was Gram Swaraj ("village self-governance"). The leader of the panchayat was generally called the mukhiya or sarpanch, an elected position. Source: Internet
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Outgoing Students of M.Tech. Bid Adieu
 The outgoing students of M.Tech. in Electronics and Communications were bid adieu in a farewell programme organised by the junior students of the department.
Dr. Umesh M. Bhushi, Principal, Prof. S. Dayananda Shetty, Director- STEP and Prof. Kiran Kumar, M.Tech. Cordinator, addressed the final year students and wished them good luck in their future journey. All faculty members of the department were present to wish the students and bid them farewell.
The outgoing students shared their experience and expressed their gratitude to the faculty members, the institution and the Chairman for making their journey wonderful. The junior students also organized a cultural programme to entertain the gathering and made it a day to remember.
Quote for the day
"It Is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult."
- Seneca
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