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Person 1: As if you are an expert you told me that once you take covid vaccination you will not get covid infection. My uncle got 2 doses of covid even after that he was infected with corona virus. Now what do you want to say? Person 2: Have you ever got chicken pox? P1: Oh yes!! When I was in 5th std i got chicken pox first. Again after marriage I have got chicken pox. P2: Oh!! So during your childhood you were not given chicken pox vaccine?? P1: Who said? See the mark. P2: So you have taken the chicken pox vaccination when you were young. P1: Yes. P2: But as you said you have got chicken pox twice even after taking the vaccine. P1: Yes. P2: How did you get chicken pox even after taking the vaccine?? P1: Oh yes!! Why did I get?? P2: Thats the matter!!! Whether chicken pox or corona virus, both of these life threatening infectious diseases and to safeguard your life vaccines are taken. Just like even after taking vaccine we are getting chicken pox, in the same way even after covid vaccination you may get corona infection but just because we have taken the vaccine even after the infection attack we will be safe. Just like fever and headache it will come and go. P1: Hehe now I understood. P2: What did you understand? P1: We should take vaccine to safeguard ourselves from corona. but even after taking the vaccine we should be careful that we shouldnt get infection. P2: Yes!!! Medication is important and in the same way we need to be careful. P1: Face mask, 3 meter distance, sanitiser all these 3 things should be followed without fail. Lets take corona vaccination. At the same time lets be careful an prevent ourselves from corona infection.

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Narrator: In gram sabha villager, panchayath officials and Govt officials are taking part. Also you shared the objective of gram sabha. Now tell us what are the duties of gram sabha. Kaliappan: Approval for the schemes related to the development of village will be done in the gram sabha meeting. Also approval for annual income and expenditure will also be done there. Also selecting the beneficiaries for the schemes of Govt should also be approved in this meeting. Review of the schemes will be done in this meeting. Villagers should come forward voluntarily and this is the place where people will be motivated to give their contribution as money, product or as effort for the development of village. So all villagers should take part in this gram sabha and help in the development of our village. Narrator: Mr. Kaliappan will continue to be with to clear more doubts about gram sabha. Lets meet tomorrow. 

Narrator: What is the purpose of gram sabha? Kaliappan: Involving villagers in the growth of village by making them take part in Planning, Implementation, Supervising, and build the reliable Panchayat administration. Any villager who has the voting right can take part in gram sabha and no one can stop it. It helps to form a responsible management. A public forum where all voters can take part. Village level planning and executing it properly, encouraging direct participation, finding out the ways to increase the funding for village. Social harmony takes place when join together. Choosing the proper beneficiaries for the scheme. Preparing ways for social auditing. Forming such gram sabha is the main responsibility of every panchayath head. Narrator: Please tell us what law says about who can attend gram sabha meeting. Kaliappan: Under section 3, Public announcement via bands or pamphlets about where gram sabha meeting is happening, when is it happening, should be given to people. 1/10 of the total population should be present in the gram sabha meeting. If there are 10000 people in a village. Minimum 300 people should attend the meeting. If the population is 500, minimum 50 people should be present. If there are 500 to 3000 people then minimum of 100 people should take part. If the population is from 3000 to 10000, 200 people should take part. Only if they take part it will be recognised as gram sabha meeting. Collector will appoint a Govt official. Within 3 days of the meeting, copy of decisions made in the meeting should be sent to Dist collector. Under section 9- decision taken in a gram sabha should be read in net gram sabha meeting and continued actions must be taken. Actions taken on the decisions should be read. Narrator: There are many things which we should know rom Mr Kaliappan. So lets hear the continuation tomorrow.

Hello everyone. We all know that gram sabha is conducted 4 times in a year. Our cell phone radio is constantly insisting people to attend it. Usually with whatever knowledge about any subject we think its only that much. If we take gram sabha we think it happens 4 times in a year, we should attend it and put forth our requests. Thats what we know. But when we spoke to Kaliappan from Nallorvattam, we got to know that we know very little about gram sabha. And there is alot more things which we need to know. Here is the interview with Kaliappan to know what we dont know. Narrator: Hello sir, welcome to NK radio. Kaliappan: Hello everyone. I am Kaliappan from Nallorvattam. Narrator: Sir, what is Gram sabha and please explain us about it. Kaliappan: As per Indian political system sec 143 (A) and (U), 73rd Indian constitution amendment act 1992, TN Panchayath Raj act 1994, gram sabha is one of the main elements. As per the amendment act it is a law that gram sabha should be conducted in every village. Narrator: Who all can take part in this gram sabha meeting? Kaliappan: All the eligible villagers who are listed in the village voter list. Earlier days if there is a problem in village, all the villagers will have common meeting and discuss about solving the problem. How to clean the lake, fixing the canal route, or even if its about digging a well, village meetings was held in olden days. Public announcements will be made about taking part in the meeting. Once everyone come, they talk about this problem. After hearing from different people they will check the expenses, where to dig, who all should be brought, where all the permission should be taken, everything will be decided in the meeting and they will start the work. They will finish the work as they have planned. Gram sabha is the base of Democracy. This gram sabha is an audit with the Constitution. Indian constitution has recognized gram sabha. Narrator: Mr. Kaliappan is here with us to share more details about gram sabha. The interview continues. If you have any doubt you can ask it by pressing 3 in our cell phone radio and get the answer for you question.