(1)The Grama Sabha shall have the following responsibilities namely: -(i)dissemination of information regarding developmental and welfare activities;(ii)participating in and canvassing of programmes of Health and Literacy and such other time bound developmental programmes;(iii)collecting essential socio-economic data;(iv)providing feed back on the performance of development programmes;(v)resort to moral sanction to pay taxes, repayment of loans promote environmental cleanliness and to maintain social harmony;(vi)mobilise local resources to augment resources of the panchayat;(vii)supervising development activities as volunteer teams and(viii)make arrangements for reporting urgently incidence of epidemics, natural calamities, etc.
