Give a brief description of rural local government in India.

A brief description of the rural local government is given below:
Panchayati Raj: The rural local government is popularly known as panchayati Raj. It consists of Gram Panchayats, panchayat samiti and Zilla Parishad.
(a) Panchayat: (i) There is a panchayat in each village or group of villages.
(ii) It is a council which has several ward members (panch) and a president (sarpanch).
(iii) They are directly elected by all the adult population living in that ward or village.
(iv) Panchayat is a decision-making body for the entire village.
(v) It works under the overall supervision of gram sabha.
(vi) Gram sabha consists of all the voters and meets twice or thrice in a year to approve the annual budget of the gram panchayat and to review its performance.
(b) Panchayat samiti or block or mandal: A few gram panchayats are grouped together to form a panchayat samiti or block or mandal.The members of this body are elected by all the members of the panchayats in that area.
(c) zilla parishad : All the panchayat samities or mandals in a district constitute zilla parishad, whose members are elected. Members of the Lok sabha and MLAs of that district and some other officials of other district level bodies are also its members. Zilla parishad chairperson is the political head of the zilla parishad.