Local Government in India-I

Paper Code: 
POL 514
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Local Government and politics in rural and urban India has appreciable salience and centrality in the processes of democratic decentralized governance. The course firstly intends to develop an elementary, historical and conceptual understanding of local government institutions and secondly generates familiarity with the issues of politics involved in managing socio-economic development through these institutions. The 73rd Constitutional Amendment is an important milestone in the movement towards greater rural local autonomy. This paper focuses on the conceptualization and working of rural local government in India

6.00
Unit I: 

Evolution and the growth of the concept of Local Self-Government in a welfare state- Rural;

Significance of 73rd amendment

8.00
Unit II: 

Organization of Rural Local Government - Structures: Gram Sabha-Powers and Functions

10.00
Unit III: 

Organization of Rural Local Government - Structures: Panchayat Samiti, Zila Parishad-Composition, Powers and Functions

10.00
Unit IV: 

Control over Rural Local Government; Finances of Rural Local Government

9.00
Unit V: 

Personnel of Rural Local Government - Village level worker, Secretary Panchayat; Role of Collector

Essential Readings: 
  • SR Maheshwari , Local Government in India, Agra, Lakshmi Narain Agarwal
  • Ashok Sharma, Local Government in India (Hindi)
References: 
  • B M Sanyal, India: Decentralised Planning, Themes And Issues, Concept, New Delhi, 2001
  • J L Singh, Women and Panchayati Raj,  Sunrise Publication, New Delhi, 2005
  • V Sudhakar , New Panchayati Raj System: Local Self-Government Community Development, Mangal Deep Publications, Jaipur, 2002.
  • T N Chaturvedi, Panchayati Raj,  Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi, 1981
Academic Year: 
2018-19
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