<Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> A gram panchayat (village council) is the only grassroots - level of panchayati raj formalised local self - governance system in India at the village or small - town level, and has a sarpanch as its elected head . </P> <P> The failed attempts to deal with local matters at the national level caused, in 1992, the reintroduction of panchayats for their previously used purpose as an organisation for local self - governance . There are about 250,000 gram panchayats in India, that are being gigabit - broadband enabled under the BharatNet and Digital India initiative . </P>

The gram panchayat is the executive body of village headed by the