Role Performance of Grampanchayat Members

The present study was undertaken in the Latur and Ausa blocks of Latur district and Ambejogai and Dahrur blocks of Beed district of Marathwada region, to appraise the role performance of Gram Panchayat members and its relation with their profile. Keeping the above objectives in mind 20 villages from above mentioned blocks were selected for the study. The 6 Grampanchayat members were selected randomly from each of the villages (3 from backward section and 3 from forward section) for the study by positional approach method. Thus the sample of 120 Gram Panchavat members from 20 villages was selected for the study. Data were collected by personally interviewing the respondents with the help of specially designed and pretested interview schedule. From the study it is found that majority of the Gram Panchayat members belonging to backward section as well as forward section had medium role performance about functioning of Gram panchayat. Regarding relational analysis it was found that the characteristics of Gram Panchayat members namely education, occupation, annual income, social participation, achievement motivation, mass media exposure, cosmopoliteness, leadership background and leadership experience were positively and significantly related with role performance of Grampanchayat members. Multiple regression analysis showed that mass media exposure and social participation, mass media exposure and leadership experience were the contributing factor in role performance of Grampanchayat members belonging to backward section and forward section members of Grampanchayat, respectively. The statistical methods such as mean, standard deviation, coefficient of correlation, multiple regression and “Z’ test for comparison were used for analysis of data.