Panchayat is the most powerful unit for rural development. With the objective of making Panchayat responsible and more powerful by awareness generation of the Panchayat representatives as well as gram sabha members about their rights and duties and increasing active participation of women in Panchayat, Pepus continuously provides trainings to elected representatives and gram sabha members. Pepus also organized awareness generation campaigns, rallys and Panchayat Sammelan. Pepus have made an innovative approach of microplanning of the area with Panchayat using this in Panchayat empowerment programme and building linkages between Panchayat representatives and CBOs