Salient features of the Bill:
- The Bill amends the Karnataka Gram swaraj and Panchayat Raj act, 1993.
- It reduces the term of the offices of presidents and vice-presidents of gram panchayats, taluk panchayats and zilla panchayats from five years to 30 months.
- No-confidence motion could not be moved against the presidents and vice-presidents of all three-tiers of local bodies before 15 months from the date of election. At present, no-confidence motion can be moved within 30 months from the date of election.
- The Deputy Commissioner would preside over the meeting while no-confidence motion is considered in taluk panchayat and the regional commissioner would preside in the case of ZP.
- In case the no-confidence moved is defeated, then no such motion is to be moved again in the next six months.
- The Bill envisages some electoral reforms and that included closing of liquor shops 48 hours before the polling of panchayats.
- On property tax collection by GPs: It has proposed no tax on vacant land in airport or industrial area or industrial areas where plantations are grown. It proposes to levy 0.10% tax on the capital value of the property on the runway area of an airport.
