Date: 2025-12-31Category: Not ApplicableState: MaharashtraCountry: India
Part IV-A, Ext. No. 636, Dated the 31st December 2025, RURAL DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT, NOTIFICATION
Constitution of India.
No. VPM-2025/CR-177/PR-4 (E-1481070).
**Executive Summary**
This notification, issued by the Rural Development Department of the Government of Maharashtra on December 31, 2025, specifies the separation of the local area comprising the revenue villages Belkhed and Kailasnagar in Umarkhed Tahasil of Yavatmal District into distinct villages. This is done in exercise of powers conferred by the Constitution of India and the Maharashtra Village Panchayats Act. The effective date for this specification is December 31, 2025.
**Key Points / Main Content**
* **Legal Basis:**
* The notification is issued under Article 243(g) of the Constitution of India and Section 4 of the Maharashtra Village Panchayats Act (III of 1959).
* It also supersedes all previous notifications or instruments issued in this regard.
* **Village Specification:**
* The local area comprising the revenue villages Belkhed and Kailasnagar in Umarkhed Tahasil, Yavatmal District are specified as distinct villages effective December 31, 2025.
* Belkhed will be known as Belkhed and Kailasnagar will be known as Kailasnagar.
**Impact Analysis**
**Stakeholder: Yavatmal District Administration**
* **Impact:** Will need to administer Belkhed and Kailasnagar as separate villages.
* **Action Required:** Update all relevant records and systems to reflect the newly specified villages.
**Stakeholder: Belkhed Gram Panchayat and Gram Sabha**
* **Impact:** The existing Gram Panchayat will likely be divided or reorganized to serve the newly separated villages.
* **Action Required:** Participate in any reorganization processes as required.
**Stakeholder: Residents of Belkhed and Kailasnagar**
* **Impact:** The residents of Belkhed and Kailasnagar will now be residents of separate villages.
* **Action Required:** No immediate action required.
Key Entities Referenced
Maharashtra Village Panchayats Act (III of 1959): Provides the legal framework under which the notification regarding the separate villages is being issued.
Constitution of India: Article 243 outlines provisions related to Panchayats, providing the constitutional basis for the notification.
Gram Vikas Vibhag (Rural Development Department): The department issuing the notification for the separate village status.
Yavatmal: The district where the Belkhed and Kailasnagar villages are located, central to the applicability of the notification.
Belkhed and Kailasnagar: Villages being granted separate status under this notification.
RNI No. MAHBIL /2009/31733
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RURAL DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT
Bandhakam Bhavan, 25, Marzban Path, Fort,
Mumbai 400 001, dated the 31st December, 2025
NOTIFICATION
Constitution of india.
No. VPM-2025/CR-177/PR-4 (E-1481070).—In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (g) of
article 243 of the Constitution of India read with section 4 of the Maharashtra Village Panchayats Act
(III of 1959), and of all other powers enabling it in this behalf, and in supersession of all the previous
notifications or instruments issued in that behalf, and after consultation with the Administrator,
discharging the functions of the Standing Committee of the Zilla Parishad, Yavatmal and Village
Panchayat and Gram Sabha Belkhed, in Umarkhed Tahasil of Yavatmal District, the Governor
of Maharashtra hereby specifies the 31st December 2025, to be the date from which each of the
local area comprising group of revenue villages Belkhed and Kailasnagar in Umarkhed Tahasil in
Yavatmal District specified in column (3) of the Schedule appended hereto, shall be the distinct
villages and shall be known by the name of the villages Belkhed and Kailasnagar respectively, as
specified in column (2) thereof, for the purposes of Part IX of the Constitution.
Schedule
Sr. No. Name of the villages Group of revenue villages or revenue village.
(1) (2) (3)
1. Belkhed Belkhed
2. Kailasnagar Kailasnagar
By order and in the name of the Governor of Maharashtra,
K. S. POTDAR,
Deputy Secretary to Government.
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RUPENDRA DINESH MORE, PRINTED AT GOVERNMENT CENTRAL PRESS, 21-A, NETAJI SUBHASH ROAD, CHARNI ROAD,
MUMBAI 400 004 AND PUBLISHED AT DIRECTORATE OF GOVERNMENT PRINTING, STATIONERY AND PUBLICATIONS,
21-A, NETAJI SUBHASH ROAD, CHARNI ROAD, MUMBAI 400 004. EDITOR : DIRECTOR, RUPENDRA DINESH MORE.