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samiti|ˈsæmɪtɪ|
Also samity.
[Hind. samiti meeting, committee.]
In India and Bangladesh, an assembly or committee.
1930M. L. Darling Rusticus Loquitur v. 124 The 250 Mahila Samitis or Women's Institutes founded in Bengal by Mrs G S Dutt. 1950M. Masani Our Growing Human Family 41 The village assembly, known in Europe as the Folk-moot and in India as the Samiti. 1962Times 26 Jan. (Survey of India) p. vi/6 Presidents of the various block samitis in a district form the zila parishad. 1975Bangladesh Times 19 July 8/8 All the members of the Board of Directors of Bangladesh National Bidi Sramik Samabaya Samity..have also applied for membership of the national party. 1976D. Hiro Inside India Today 50 What then emerged was a three-tiered system whereby the old district boards..were replaced by Zilla parishads (i.e. district councils) with responsibility for co-ordinating development plans to be channelled through panchayat samitis (i.e. council committees) consisting of a number of popularly elected panchayats encompassing one or more villages—all interlinked through indirect elections. This system, popularly known as the panchayat raj, was first introduced..in 1959. |