Balwantrai Mehta, a pioneer of Panchayati Raj and a distinguished freedom fighter, was Chief minister of which state?

The Balwant Rai Mehta Committee was a board at first assigned by the Government of India on 16 January 1957 to investigate the working of the Community Development Program (2 October 1952) and the National Extension Service (2 October 1953) and to suggest measures for their better working.The Chairman of this council was Balwantrai G Mehta. The board of trustees presented its report on 24 November 1957 and suggested the foundation of the plan of 'popularity based decentralization' which at long last came to be known as Panchayati Raj. The principle point of Panchayat raj framework is to settle the neighborhood issues locally and to make individuals politically cognizant.

The report of the Team for the Study of the Community Projects and National Extension Service, Chaired by Balwantray G. Mehta in 1957 is connected here

Foundation of a 3-level Panchayati Raj framework - Gram Panchayat at the town level, Panchayat Samiti at the square level, and District Parishad at the area level. These levels ought to be naturally connected through a gadget of circuitous races. The fundamental motivation behind this division is to rearrange and to diminish the responsibility of the state and focal government[MSD].

The town Panchayat ought to be comprised with straightforwardly chose agents, though the Panchayat Samiti and Zilla Parishad ought to be established with in a roundabout way chose individuals. This is on the grounds that Panchyat is like that of state get together where there is place for legislative issues where as Samiti and Zilla Parishad individuals ought to be more taught and learned and may not need the greater part uphold.

• All arranging and formative exercises ought to be depended to these bodies.
• The Panchayat Samiti ought to be the leader body while the Zilla Parishad ought to be the warning, organizing and administrative body.
• The District Collector ought to be the Chairman of the Zilla Parishad.