Articles tagged under: Gram Panchayats

Where to find Gujarat Gram Panchayat Election Results 2025?

June 26, 2025
Where to find Gujarat Gram Panchayat Election Results 2025?

Gandhinagar: Elections were held on June 22, 2025, in as many as 3,895 gram panchayats across the state. The counting of votes for these elections began on Wednesday at 9:00 am at 239 counting centres and continued until 10:30 am this morning. The entire counting process was concluded peacefully under tight police security arranged at all venues. To provide detailed election results, the State Election Commission set up an ‘e-dashboard’ system. As results were declared from various taluka h...Read More

Gujarat Gram Panchayat election results today; counting underway

June 25, 2025
Gujarat Gram Panchayat election results today; counting underway

Gandhinagar: General and by-elections for 3,895 gram panchayats in Gujarat were held on June 22, 2025. The counting of votes for the general, midterm, bifurcation, and by-elections began at 9:00 am on June 25, 2025. According to the State Election Commission, a total of 239 counting centres and 1,080 counting halls have been set up. The counting process involves 2,771 counting tables, 13,444 counting staff members, 14,231 police personnel for security, and 3,431 Class-IV staff deployed across t...Read More

Voting for Gram Panchayat elections in Gujarat today

June 22, 2025
Voting for Gram Panchayat elections in Gujarat today

Gandhinagar: The state of Gujarat is witnessing another round of elections today, this time at the village level. General or midterm polls are being held in a total of 3,541 gram panchayats, while by-elections are taking place in 353 gram panchayats. The State Election Commission (SEC) had announced general/midterm/divisional elections for 4,564 gram panchayats last month. Of these, 751 have been declared “Samras,” meaning they were won without any contest. In the remaining 3,813 gram pan...Read More

751 gram panchayats go ‘Samras’ in Gujarat; voting in 3,541 villages on June 22

June 21, 2025
751 gram panchayats go ‘Samras’ in Gujarat; voting in 3,541 villages on June 22

Gandhinagar: Out of the 4,564 gram panchayats for which elections were announced by the Gujarat State Election Commission (SEC) last month, 751 have been declared “Samras”, meaning they were won without any contest. These include gram panchayats headed for general or midterm elections, or newly formed after restructuring of existing ones. According to an official SEC release on Friday, these 751 panchayats saw the unanimous selection of sarpanch and ward members under the state’s Samras s...Read More

Gujarat govt digitizes transfer process for class 3 and 4 panchayat employees

August 21, 2023
Gujarat govt digitizes transfer process for class 3 and 4 panchayat employees

Gandhinagar: For the first time, the transfer of class-3 and class-4 Panchayat employees between districts has been digitized. The state government announced this development on Sunday. A total of 1,179 interdistrict transfer orders were approved for employees, with the entire process being conducted online. The state government emphasized that this shift to a paperless service will introduce transparency into the process of interdistrict transfer applications. DeshGujaratRead More

Elections of 10,312 Gram Panchayats in Gujarat in December

October 10, 2021
Elections of 10,312 Gram Panchayats in Gujarat in December

Gandhinaga: The State Government and State Election Commission have started the preparations for the election of 10,312 gram-panchayats, term of which shall end in December 2021. The state government has sent the rotation report including the information of general seats, the seats reserved for females and SC, ST and more to the state election commission. The final electoral roll for this election will be declared in the mid of October. The state election commission will declare about th...Read More

Schemes in upcoming State budget for farmers and villages: Rupani

February 14, 2018

Gandhinagar: Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani today said that his government is going to give special focus on farmers and villages. Rupani said the government will bring many schemes in its upcoming budget for farmers and rural areas. He said the government is drafting the budget with aim to make villages prosper. Money will not be an issue, he said. Rupani said the government will call gathering of Sarpanch(elected village head) of all 18,000 villages of Gujarat in future. He said he wa...Read More

Polling to elect 10,318 Sarpanchs in Gujarat on December 27, nearly 2 crore voters

November 28, 2016
Polling to elect 10,318 Sarpanchs  in Gujarat on December 27, nearly 2 crore voters

Gandhinagar: Elections for 10,318 Sarpanchs(village heads), gram panchayat bodies and by elections for vacant gram panchayat seats will be held in the last week of December this year in Gujarat. According to State Election Commission of Gujarat, polling for Gram Panchayat elections will take place on December 27 while counting will take place on December 29. The polls will involve 91,002 wards and 24,454 polling stations. In one of the biggest election seasons in 6 crore strong Guj...Read More

CM hands over incentive grants worth Rs.10.86 crore to 422 village panchayats

May 02, 2012

Gandhinagar, 2 May 2012 Chief Minister Narendra Modi today handed over incentive grants worth Rs.10.86 crore to 422 villages that became samras in the panchayat elections held in April-2012. Giving out the grants to samras sarpanchs and panchayat members today in a programme held at Mahatma Mandir in Gandhinagar Mr. Modi said that an atmosphere of healthy competition between villages has been created across the state. “Instead of conflicts, the villages are now competing o...Read More

Modi gives incentive to ‘samras’ villages of central Gujarat

March 23, 2012

Ahmedabad, 23 March, 2012 Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi presented incentive awards worth Rs.7.30-crore to 298 ‘samras gram’ panchayats and felicitated their sarpanch (village heads) from seven districts in central zone at a glittering function at Anand today. Villages which elect their panchayat members through consensus instead of elections attain the status of ‘samras gram’. The seven districts covered today are Ahmedabad, Anand, Vadodara, Kheda, Dahod, P...Read More