Keral’s collection on Monday referred to the object committee for the Keral Union (amendment) 2025 and Keral Panchayat Raj (amendment) 2025, aimed at bringing an internal system of vigilance and more clarity to reserve seats for planned castes and planned tribes in local bodies.
While the opposition of the United Democratic Front (UDF) interpreted some clauses in the bill as an attempt by the state government on further usurping the powers of local authorities, Minister of Local MB Rajesh, who piloted the bill, said it was focused on further decentralization of powers.
Depending on the amendment, the internal vigilance and monitoring system will examine documents and other matters with regard to local administration, including works and schemes carried out by the local authority. It will also evaluate whether the developmental and social responsibilities are entrusted to the local authority and the financial and control powers entrusted to him are performed and performed effectively and in accordance with the law.
Social audit
The AKM AKM Congress said that the government’s attempt to replace the performance of performance in local bodies by the internal mechanism of alertness will lead to the government to use the alert to target local authorities by the ruling opposition party. However, Mr Rajesh said that the internal mechanism of the ward would not be mistaken with the Ministry of Ages. The established social audit is not carried out by the government, but through democratic mechanisms at a local level including Ward Sabha and Gram Sabha, which further transmits powers to people.
Reservation
Another proposed amendment is related to the reservation for planned castes and planned tribes in local body elections. A clause has been added in which the population of planned caste and planned tribes is the same, the first -option reservation category may be determined by the draw of the batch, while in the following elections it may be determined by avoiding repetition.
Changing the prohibiting structure and accessories causing obstruction in the public streets says that no person can build any wall, fence, rail, mail, step or structure or setting of accessories interference in any part of the public street, pond, channel or drain or occupying any part of such public streets, pond, channel or drain. For the position of such structures, a written permit must be obtained from the local secretary by the body by being a fee.
When he replied to the discussion, Mr. Rajesh faced the United Democratic Front (UDF) that the allocation of the state government had fallen significantly to the local authorities. He said that the five -year allocation of the average fund plan for local authorities in the period 2011-16 under the UDF was 24.11% of the state budget. In LDF’s possession from 2021 to the present time, the average of the fund’s fund was 27.26% of the state budget, while the government increased the allocation by 0.5% according to the allocation 6.
Published – 29 September 2025 20:02
