Main recommendations of Mehta committee’s recommendation 1959 are given below:
(1) The development work within a local area was to be entrusted to a statutory constituted body termed as Panchayat Samiti.
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(2) The Panchayat Samiti was to be composed of the Presidents of the Panchayats and some co-opted members from Scheduled Castes and women etc. Each state could evolve its own mode of constituting the Panchayat Samiti.
The M.P.s and M.L.A.s from that constituency were to be associated members. The SDO was to be the chairman of the Samiti till the time the chairman was duly elected.
(3) The Zila Parishad was to consist of all the Chairmen of the Panchayat Samitis, M.L.A.s and M.P.s from the District and some co-opted members. They had to elect their own chairman. The collector was to be a member of the Parishad. The Zila Parishad was to act as an advisory, coordinating and supervisory body.
(4) The Budgets of the Panchayats were subject to scrutiny by the Panchayat Samiti and those of the Panchayat Samitis by the Zila Parishad.
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(5) The functional of the Panchayat Samitis were to comprise of all functions of NES Blocks, and those of the District Board.
(6) The Panchayat Samiti was to have independent sources of revenues.
(7) The BDO had to work as the Executive Officer and Secretary to the Panchayat Samiti.
(8) At the village level the Panchayats had to function as a main agency of Development work.
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(9) The village level worker was to be the Development Secretary of the Panchayats.
(10) The State Government was authorised to exercise power over them. It could suspend them.