A New Ministry of Panchayati Raj has been created w.e.f. 27th May 2004…… http://panchayat.nic.in

Total number of Panchayati Raj Institutions in India
http://panchayat.nic.in/pris.htm

List of all the blocks in India
 http://panchayat.nic.in/Block%20Directory.htm

Policies of Panchayati Raj Ministry
http://panchayat.nic.in/policies.htm

National rural employment guarantee Act 2005: the central government has made an act that provides for the enhancement of livelihood security of the households in rural areas of the country by providing at least one hundred days of guaranteed wage employment in every financial year to every household whose adult members volunteer to do……..
http://rural.nic.in/rajaswa.pdf

There are total of 234676 Gram panchayats, 6097 Intermediate panchayats and 537 District panchayats in India. This includes 3746, 211 and 22 respectively in Jharkhand.
See:  http://panchayat.nic.in/pris.htm

Right to information
http://rural.nic.in/rightinfoact.htm

For our previous newsletters on forestry see
Issue 1 : http://www.aidindia.org.uk/nl_mar05/newsletterf.htm
Issue 2 : http://www.aidindia.org.uk/nl_may05/nlmay051.htm