patna the state cabinet on tuesday approved the proposal of the panchayati raj department to issue an ordinance for formation of panchayat advisory committee pac in all the panchayats to oversee developmental activities at the village level as elections to the threetier panchayati raj bodies are not likely to be held before june 15the government has already sent the draft of the proposed ordinance to governor phagu chauhan for his assent once the governor gives his assent the ordinance will be immediately notified after which its implementation will begin a source in the panchayati raj department saidthe issuance of the ordinance became necessary because panchayat elections would be delayed in the state the entire process of the elections had to be completed by or before june 15 which is not possible under the present circumstances the source addedan official in the state cabinet secretariat department said the details of the proposal cannot be revealed at this stage they will be known only after the governor gives his assent to the proposal the official addedit is learned that the advisory committees will be broadbased and comprise mlas as well as elected representatives of the outgoing panchayats panchayat samitis and zila parishads the state has over 8000 panchayats and 38 zila parishadsthe elections to the threetier panchayati raj institutions could not be held this year as the state election commission wanted it to be done through the evms but the election commission of india eci remained noncommittal on supply of evmsthe matter also went to the court further some political parties wanted the panchayat elections to be held on the party lines ever since the institution of the panchayats came into being the respective state governments avoided holding the elections on party linesincidentally since the 1978 panchayat elections that was marred by large scale violence the elections could be held only in 2001 however under the nitish kumarled nda government the panchayat elections were held in 2006 2011 and 2016meanwhile the hindustani awam morcha secular chief and former cm jitan ram manjhi has thanked cm nitish kumar for the decision of the government to set up pacs