Seventy-Fourth Amendment Act, 1992

• Granted constitutional status and protection to the urban local bodies. For this purpose, the Amendment has added a new Part IX-A entitled as “the municipalities” and a new Twelfth Schedule containing 18 functional items of the municipalities.

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• The 73rd and 74th CAA has given a practical shape to Article 40 of the Constitution. To organise village Panchayats and endow them with necessary powers and authority to enable them to function as units of self-government (Article 40).