In a move to streamline urban planning, Karnataka's Gram Panchayat areas have introduced fresh regulations for layout approvals. Developers...

In 2024, the Panchayati Raj Ministry focused on bridging infrastructure gaps by sanctioning funds for over 4,000 Panchayat Bhawans. Digital...

According to sources close to the Home Minister, the Panchayat Raj department had proposed certain amendments to the Karnataka Gram Swaraj ...

The note from the CMO followed appeals from distillers and brewers in Karnataka, according to which, the ban would disrupt their supply com...

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has set aside Rs. 50 crore for the project through the viability gap funding method in his 2017-18 state budget...

The project, Bapuji Seva Kendra, launched on Friday by Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah in Haveri district, will serve 4.2 crore peopl...

Karnataka Gram Swaraj and Panchayat Raj Bill 2015, passed by both Houses of the state legislature without discussion last week, emphasises ...

A landmark bill that defangs legislators and empowers the village community meeting (gram sabha) as the basic unit of local self-governance...

Like Hegde, Siddaramaiah is facing the dissent of his MLAs, who are unhappy with decentralisation of powers to gram sabhas.

Under the Karnataka Panchayat Raj Act, gram panchayat elections are apolitical and no party can use its symbol or urge electors to vote for...

When the state goes to panchayat polls on May 29, there will be a strange affirmative action in place: Half the seats would be reserved for...

SAGY is set to turn into a weapon in the hands of the Congress in Karnataka, which is going for panchayat polls later this month.

Karnataka Panchayat Raj (Amendment) Bill 2015, under discussion in the state assembly, has made voting mandatory for all three tiers of pan...

“All it requires is setting up of internal processing by the finance department,” said TR Raghunandan, a former joint secretary in the depa...

The state government had earlier planned to introduce a bill in the assembly seeking changes in the existing act for local body elections.

Rahul Chimanbhai Mehta, who made the right to recall his plank while contesting in Gandhinagar, said even the Karnataka draft bill was inad...

The government hopes to rope in Microsoft to equip panchayats to come on the e-governance platform, according to minister for panchayati ra...