This paper focuses on the conceptualization and working of urban local government in India. Local Government and politics in urban India has an appreciable say in the processes of democratic decentralized governance. The course intends to generate familiarity with the issues of politics involved in managing socio-economic development through urban local institutions. The paper also deals with the 74th Constitutional Amendment as an important milestone in the movement towards greater urban local autonomy.
The concept of Local Government in a welfare state
Patterns of Urban Local Government -Composition, Structures & Powers
74th Amendment and Urban Local Government
Urban Local Finances
Personnel Administration
State Control over these bodies