Council members are an important part of the union council system. The Government has distributed the roles and responsibilities of the members of the Union Parishad by issuing a circular dated 10/09/2002, Memorandum No. 3 / Miscellaneous-14/2001/601. The general members of the Union Parishad and the members of the reserved seats have their own responsibilities and duties. Again, there are responsibilities and duties which are jointly performed by the members of the general and reserved seats.

Responsibilities of reserved seat members

The members of the reserved seats made arrangements to ensure the registration of marriages including prevention of violence against women and children, prevention of dowry and acid throwing, prevention of child marriage. He took necessary steps for the welfare of women and children as the chairman of this committee.
He also served as an advisor to the Law and Order Committee and Disaster Management Committee of his ward area.
The members of the reserved seats are the chairmen of one-third of the standing committees of the Union Parishad and the chairmen of one-third of the total project committees.
Performs other duties as directed by the Government and the Union Parishad at different times.
The responsibility of the members of the general seat

He formed the ward law and order committee with the eminent persons of his ward area and various professional representatives and acted as the chairman. The committee informs the union council about the crime, disorder, smuggling, criminal and dangerous business in the ward.
The concerned ward made arrangements to fill up two forms through the village police for registration of persons like birth-death, blind, beggar, destitute and helpless widow, orphan, poor handicapped etc. He kept a copy of it and sent another copy to the chairman of the union council.
Assist the authorities in conducting all types of censuses including census of the concerned ward area.
Ward Disaster Management Committee was formed with the participation of eminent persons of the concerned ward area and representatives of different classes including youth society. He is also the chairman of this committee.
Controls soaking of flax, jute or other trees in different places of ponds or water supply of the concerned ward, skin coloring or ripening in residential areas. Assists in controlling the construction of bricks, earthenware or other furnaces by excavating soil in residential areas and lifting stones or other objects.
The Union Parishad assists the Chairman in providing security, comfort and other facilities to the visitors in the work of other organizations in the concerned ward area.
 Performs other functions as directed by the Government and the Union Parishad at different times.

The joint responsibility of the members of the reserved and general seats

Encouraging the people to take part in various income generating projects / activities to increase agricultural production in the respective ward areas, he recommended to the Union Parishad to take up development projects in these areas.
He created projects in the respective ward areas to educate the people about illiteracy, family planning, public health and primary health care. Assists in the implementation of the project if adopted. Assists in the management of the first aid center run by the Union Parishad.
Public property in the concerned ward area such as roads, highways, government places, open spaces, parks, playgrounds, cemeteries, crematoriums, meeting places, monuments, roads, pools, bridges, culverts, dams, canals, bills, telephones, electricity, gas etc. Arranges for conservation.
Encourage the people to build and use hygienic latrines in the respective ward areas.
Provides encouragement and support for sports development, library, library arrangements and arrangements for national festivals and physical exercises and cultural activities in the respective ward areas.
 Concerned ward people are aware of natural disasters in the area.
To manage the environmental protection of the concerned ward area, he collects and removes dung and road garbage, controls the construction of roads, ghats, ditches, cleaning of Hazamja ponds, removal of dead animals, slaughter of animals and construction of dangerous buildings.
In order to use safe water in the concerned ward area, wells, tube wells, reservoirs, ponds, dighis and various sources of water supply have been conserved and measures have been taken to prevent pollution.
Performs duties in the standing committees of the Union Parishad.
 Assists in the implementation of universal primary and adult education activities in the respective ward areas.
 He urged the locals to send their primary school children to school in the respective wards.
 Relevant wards motivate the people to pay taxes, rates, fees, etc. of the area and assist the Union Parishad in controlling and maintaining the cattle pens. 
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