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DEHRADUN: The state government has proposed different qualification levels for gram and zila panchayat candidates as well as for women and SC/ST candidates. “To be the head of the zila panchayat, you have to be more educated than a member of the gram panchayat. But, according to sources, when the proposal was presented to the minister, he demanded that the criteria for women and SC/ST candidates must be different. The state, at present, has around 8,000 gram panchayats and more than 5,300 gram panchayat members. Also there are 436 zila panchayat members in all the 13 districts of the state..