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Highlight the impact of 73rd Constitutional Amendment on the working of the Panchayati Raj institutions in India.

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The Constitution (Seventy-third Amendment) Act, 1992, in force from 24 April 1993, turned Article 40's unenforceable directive into Part IX. Its impact divides along its own drafting. The mandatory clauses transformed how panchayats are formed. The permissive clauses ("may" in Articles 243G and 243H) left what panchayats actually govern to state discretion.

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