The Officer-in-charge of this branch is the
Distt. Development & Panchayat Officer. The main works with which the branch
deals are:-
·The various types of grants which come from the Govt. for
development works are received by this branch.
·From this branch,
they are forwarded to the concerned department or authority through DDPO after
getting them passed from the treasury, along with the instructions issued by the
Govt.
·DDPOs have been given the powers of Collector under the 'Village
Common Lands Act 1961'.
·This branch also checks the illegal encroachments on the Panchayat
land.
It is empowered to cancel the deed of auctioning of Panchayat land if
it has not been done as per rules and regulations.