PATNA: The Patna high court on Tuesday, in a major relief to the state government validated the amendments made in the Bihar Panchayat Raj Act which was made for implementation of the two of the seven resolutions of chief minister Nitish Kumar The judgement was delivered by the division bench of chief justice Rajendra Menon and justice Anil Kumar Upadhyay while hearing two separate writ petitions filed by the Bihar Pradesh Mukhiya Mahasangh . The court also dismissed both the petitions of the sangh filed on June 22 and July 5.The sangh had challenged the amendments in the Act through which the state government formed ward implementation committee for execution of 'nal-jal' and 'nali-gali' project under which the CM had promised for piped-water supply and drainage system in each village across the state.Thorugh the amendments, "ward implementation committee" was formed which would consists of seven private members and a major part of funds allocated to the panchayats by central government would be handed over to the committee for the execution of the two resolution. Each panchayat, under the Act, already has 'lok nirman samiti' similar to the committee for execution of public welfare projects from funds allocated to it.For its implementation, the state government had rolled out an executive instruction which was set aside by the high court on May 17 after being challenged by the sangh. However, later an ordinance was rolled following an amendment in the Act which was challenged again in the high court.Advocate general Lalit Kishore said that the court had completely validated the amendments through which the ward implementation committee's foundation was laid for the execution of the two resolution and has cited them as in accordance with the constitution. "Both the petitions of the sangh were dismissed by the court," Kishore said.The sangh was represented by senior advocates Vinod Kanth and SBK Mangalam Meanwhile, sangh's state president said they would move before Supreme Court against the Patna high court's order within a week. "The main reason for amendment is that the state government has no funds for execution of the electoral promises due to which they found a way to use the funds allocated to the panchayats by central government by forming a separate committee even when panchayats in Bihar already have lok nirman samiti which altogether executes 29 different types of project starting from agriculture, lighting, burial cremation grounds and several others," Singh said.He also said that an emergency meeting of all the mukhiyas in the state has been called over the issue on Wednesday.

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