Local Government in Ancient India c13.42

c13.42

For elections to the *pañca-vāra* and gold committees a similar process was gone through for the selection of thirty names for each of the wards. ‘From these thirty twelve men shall be elected. Six out of twelve thus chosen shall form the gold committee, and the remaining six the *pañca-vāra* committee.’ Since the selection by drawing lots of only twelve men out of thirty would inevitably result in the elimination of eighteen wards from representation on those important committees, it was enacted that in future elections ‘the wards which have been already represented on these committees shall be excluded and the selection made from the remaining wards by “drawing the *karai*”.’