Which of the following Amendments to Constitution of India grants a Constitutional status to 'Panchayati Raj System'?

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The correct answer is the 73 ^rd Amendment.

The Parliament passed the 73rd Constitutional Amendment Act to grant the Panchayati Raj Institutions in India a legislative status by adding Article 243 and Part IX of the Indian Constitution.
Pursuant to Article 243, the Act was imposed on all state governments to amend their Panchayat Laws in compliance with the Constitutional provisions.

Key Points

The act was passed in 1993 to give constitutional status to the Panchayati Raj Institutions in India and is an important step in the decentralization of power and promotion of local self-government.
Panchayati Raj system is a local self-governance system, with constitutional recognition, in villages. In this system, the Gram Panchayat is the basic unit of local administration.
It is a 3 tier system comprising:
- Gram Panchayat at the village level.
- Panchayat Samiti at the block level.
- Zila Parishad at the District level.

Additional Information

The 72nd Amendment in the Constitution of India Statement of Objects and Reasons appended to the Constitution (Seventy-Second Amendment) Bill, 1991 (Bill No. 209 of 1991) For restoring peace and harmony in the areas of the State of Tripura where disturbed conditions prevailed, a Memorandum of Settlement was signed by the Government of India with Tripura National Volunteers on 12-8-1988.
The 7l^St Amendment Of The Constitution Of India, Officially Known As The Constitution (seventy-first Amendment) Act, 1992, amended the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution so as to include Konkani, Meitei (Manipuri), and Nepali languages, thereby raising the total number of languages listed in the schedule to eighteen.
75th Amendment in the Constitution of India THE CONSTITUTION (SEVENTY-FIFTH AMENDMENT) ACT, 1993. It provides for the setting up of State-level Rent Tribunals to exclude the jurisdiction of all courts, except that of the Supreme Court, under Article 136 of the Constitution.