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Pooja is the deputy "sarpanch" - Hindi for leader - of her school's Bal Panchayat in the village of Chaudhula, Viratnagar, Rajasthan, and she's 11 years old.
NYT > Home Page By SONIA FALEIRO 2012
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Pushpa and her friends have a simple logic - while their MP and MLA would sit in Delhi or Jaipur, the sarpanch is the one who directly impacts their lives, and battling corruption at the panchayat level becomes critical.
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Ideally, villagers should call an assembly if they want something done but that doesn't happen often because you don't want to antagonize the "sarpanch" who is an important man.
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Haryana likely to be held next month, state election commission officials Monday said that voting for the post of 'sarpanch' (village headman) would be held through EVMs.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2010
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The sarpanch is the village head and he can pass on information to the villagers by organising meetings with them, "Bhati said, adding that the role of fishermen is very important, as they pass most of their time in the sea.
Top Headlines 2009
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The sarpanch is the village head and he can pass on information to the villagers by organising meetings with them, "Bhati said, adding that the role of fishermen is very important, as they pass most of their time in the sea.
Top Headlines 2009
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The sarpanch is the village head and he can pass on information to the villagers by organising meetings with them, "Bhati said, adding that the role of fishermen is very important, as they pass most of their time in the sea.
Top Headlines 2009
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'sarpanch' (village headman) would be held through EVMs.
PunjabNewsline News 2010
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The architects of the rural employment program tried to address this by putting village councils, headed by the local mayor, or "sarpanch", in charge of paying workers and deciding what to build.
India's Boom Bypasses Rural Poor Tom Wright 2011
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A 90-year-old lady, Mrs. Kamla Devi, cast her vote early in the morning at polling station - 70 located at Government Girls Primary School, Gurah Brahmana in Chhamb Assembly segment while Mr. Shamsher Singh, sarpanch of the same village, was the first to cast his vote at the same polling station.
Jammu Polling tryst with democracy kept alive by its young, old 2009
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