The table below shows different states, years of enactment of their Panchayat
acts, their corresponding tier systems, name of their tiers, number of
Panchayats in each tier, and profile of elected members.
| State |
Year of Enforcement of Act |
Tiers |
Name of the Tiers |
No.s |
Elected Members (2003) |
| Total |
SCs |
STs |
Women |
| Andhra
Pradesh |
1964
(Amended in 1988) |
Three-Tier |
Gram Panchayat
Mandal Parishad
Zila Parishad |
21943 |
277027 |
38674 |
15304 |
68736 |
| 1093 |
19536 |
789 |
803 |
4919 |
| 22 |
1459 |
128 |
66 |
364 |
| Arunachal
Pradesh |
1964
(Amended in 1988) |
Three-Tier |
Gram Panchayat
Anchal Parishad
Zila Parishad |
2012 |
5733 |
0 |
5733 |
86 |
| 79 |
1205 |
0 |
1205 |
39 |
| 12 |
77 |
0 |
77 |
- |
| Assam |
1972 |
Two-Tier |
Gaon Panchayat
Anchalik Panchayat
Zila Parishad |
2489 |
23471 |
- |
- |
7851 |
| 196 |
2148 |
- |
- |
746 |
| 21 |
390 |
- |
- |
117 |
| Bihar |
1947 |
Three-Tier |
Gram Panchayat
Panchayat Samiti
Zila Parishad |
12181 |
156528 |
- |
- |
40553 |
| 725 |
15676 |
- |
- |
4065 |
| 55 |
1572 |
- |
- |
410 |
| Chattisgarh |
1947 |
Three-Tier |
Gram Panchayat
Panchayat Samiti
Zila Parishad |
- |
166214 |
- |
- |
41913 |
| - |
3545 |
- |
- |
906 |
| - |
389 |
- |
- |
95 |
| Goa |
1962 |
Two-Tier |
Gram Panchayat
Zila Parishad |
183 |
1439 |
- |
- |
457 |
| 2 |
50 |
- |
- |
17 |
| Gujarat |
1961 |
Three-Tier |
Gram Panchayat
Taluka Panchayat
Zila Panchayat |
13316 |
152303 |
4739 |
9550 |
1312 |
| 184 |
5263 |
279 |
561 |
41180 |
| 19 |
1004 |
57 |
114 |
274 |
| Haryana |
1961 |
Three-Tier |
Gram Panchayat
Panchayat Samiti
Zila Parishad |
5958 |
73002 |
11793 |
- |
18356 |
| 110 |
3272 |
519 |
- |
842 |
| 16 |
423 |
64 |
- |
109 |
Himachal
Pradesh |
1968 |
Three-Tier |
Gram Panchayat
Panchayat Samiti
Zila Parishad |
2922 |
25371 |
3824 |
672 |
6822 |
| 72 |
2220 |
280 |
74 |
562 |
| 12 |
338 |
46 |
14 |
87 |
Jammu
& Kashmir |
1977 |
Two-Tier |
Halqa Panchayat
Block Development Council
District Planning &
Development Board |
2683 |
22969 |
- |
- |
- |
| - |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| 14 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Karnataka |
1983 |
Three-Tier |
Gram Panchayat
Taluka Panchayat
Zila Panchayat |
5675 |
89343 |
17918 |
7575 |
35922 |
| 175 |
3537 |
601 |
169 |
375 |
| 20 |
930 |
165 |
47 |
339 |
| Kerala |
1960 |
Three-Tier |
Village Panchayat
Block Panchayat
District |
991 |
13259 |
1256 |
136 |
4801 |
| 152 |
1638 |
179 |
17 |
629 |
| 14 |
307 |
30 |
4 |
105 |
| Madhya
Pradesh |
1990 |
Three-Tier |
Gram Panchayat
Janpad Panchayat
Zila Panchayat |
30922 |
314847 |
64997 |
132638 |
106491 |
| 459 |
6456 |
1345 |
2780 |
2159 |
| 45 |
734 |
143 |
267 |
248 |
| Maharashtra |
1961- 1962 |
Three-Tier |
Village Panchayat
Panchayat Samiti
Zila Parishad |
27619 |
255194 |
40766 |
35150 |
77548 |
| 319 |
4284 |
409 |
453 |
1407 |
| 29 |
2081 |
206 |
232 |
658 |
| Manipur |
1975 |
Two-Tier |
Gram Panchayat
Zila Parishad |
116 |
1722 |
35 |
44 |
611 |
| 3 |
61 |
1 |
2 |
22 |
| Orissa |
1964 |
Three-Tier |
Gram Panchayat
Panchayat Samiti
Zila Parishad |
5261 |
118961 |
7394 |
11823 |
31414 |
| 314 |
8415 |
478 |
809 |
2188 |
| 30 |
1150 |
85 |
131 |
296 |
| Punjab |
1952 |
Three-Tier |
Gram Panchayat
Panchayat Samiti
Zila Parishad |
12369 |
75968 |
27573 |
- |
27108 |
| 138 |
2480 |
338 |
- |
813 |
| 17 |
279 |
84 |
- |
89 |
| Rajasthan |
1953 |
Three-Tier |
Gram Panchayat
Panchayat Samiti
Zila Parishad |
9185 |
153732 |
17902 |
15616 |
39450 |
| 237 |
7165 |
943 |
804 |
1908 |
| 31 |
1372 |
177 |
154 |
364 |
| Sikkim |
1982 |
Two-Tier |
Gram Panchayat
Zila Panchayat |
159 |
1195 |
17 |
86 |
322 |
| 4 |
121 |
5 |
37 |
29 |
| Tamil
Nadu |
1958 |
Three-Tier |
Village Panchayat
Panchayat Union Council
District Panchayat |
12607 |
97458 |
19335 |
736 |
26181 |
| 384 |
6570 |
1358 |
41 |
1770 |
| 28 |
656 |
1358 |
41 |
173 |
| Tripura |
1983 |
Three-Tier |
Gram Panchayat
Panchayat Samiti
Zila Parishad |
538 |
5685 |
1480 |
286 |
1895 |
| 23 |
299 |
78 |
15 |
106 |
| 4 |
82 |
22 |
4 |
28 |
Uttar
Pradesh |
1983 |
Three-Tier |
Gram Panchayat
Kshetra Panchayat
Zila Panchayat |
58805 |
6083383 |
101939 |
867 |
230865 |
| 904 |
51870 |
9126 |
135 |
18580 |
| 83 |
2126 |
389 |
7 |
788 |
| Uttaranchal |
1947 |
Three-Tier |
Gram Panchayat
Panchayat Samiti
Zila Parishad |
- |
261915 |
- |
- |
18041 |
| - |
3225 |
- |
- |
1133 |
| - |
345 |
- |
- |
119 |
| West
Bengal |
1973 |
Three-Tier |
Gram Panchayat
Panchayat Samiti
Zila Parishad |
3330 |
51200 |
14131 |
3755 |
11497 |
| 341 |
8579 |
2410 |
613 |
1923 |
| 17 |
723 |
279 |
68 |
156 |
Andman and
Nicobar
Islands |
1994 |
Three-Tier |
Gram Panchayat
Panchayat Samiti
Zila Panchayat |
67 |
692 |
- |
- |
261 |
| 7 |
67 |
- |
- |
25 |
| 1 |
30 |
- |
- |
10 |
| Chandigarh |
1994 |
Three-Tier |
Gram Panchayat
Panchayat Samiti
Zila Parishad |
17 |
109 |
- |
- |
22 |
| 1 |
6 |
- |
- |
2 |
| 1 |
10 |
- |
- |
3 |
| Dadra &
Nagar Haveli |
1994 |
Two-Tier |
Village Panchayat
District Panchayat |
11 |
135 |
3 |
103 |
46 |
| Daman
& Diu |
1994 |
Two-Tier |
Village Panchayat
District Panchayat |
10 |
65 |
0 |
17 |
25 |
| 2 |
15 |
1 |
3 |
5 |
| Delhi |
1954 |
|
District |
|
|
|
|
|
| Lakhshadweep |
1994 |
Two-Tier |
Village (Dweep) Panchayat
District Panchayat |
10 |
79 |
- |
79 |
30 |
| 1 |
22 |
- |
22 |
8 |
| Pondicherry |
1973 |
Three-Tier |
Village Panchayat
Commune Panchayat |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| 10 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
