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=== Rural Local Governing Bodies ===
{{main|Panchayati raj in India}}
The Constitutional (73rd Amendment) Act, 1992 aims to provide a three-tier system of Panchayati Raj for all States having a population of over 2 million, to hold Panchayat elections regularly every five years, to provide reservation of seats for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Women, to appoint State Finance Commission to make recommendations as regards the financial powers of the Panchayats and to constitute District Planning Committee to prepare a draft development plan for the district.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Laxmikanth |first=M |title=Indian Polity |publisher=McGraw Hill |year=2017 |pages=1145 |language=English}}</ref>
The following 3 hierarchies of PRI panchayats exist in states or Union Territories with more than two million inhabitants:

* [[Gram Panchayat|Gram Panchayats]] at village level
* Panchayat Samiti or Mandal Parishad or Block Panchayat or Taluk Panchayat at [[Community Development Block]] or [[Mandal]] or Taluk level and
* [[District Panchayat|Zila Parishad]]/District Panchayat at [[List of districts in India|district]] level.