Globalisation and decentralised governance - Reflections on panchayats in India
By: Chatterjee, Biswajit.
Contributor(s): Ghosh, Dilip Kumar.
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ArticlePublisher: 2003Description: p.129-146.Subject(s): Decentralization - India | Globalization - India | Panchayat -India | Panchayat
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Indian Journal of Public AdministrationSummary: Globalisation indicating a growing integration of economies and societies around the world is a complex process. This process has influences on individuals and institutions of the countries. With the process of opening up and integration with the outside world, the domestic institutions responsible for development need lot of reorientation for meeting with the challenges. India has embarked on the path of planned economic development in the overall framework of mixed economy where both public and private sector have freedom to operate side by side. There are advantages and problems associated with both centralised and decentralised planning strategies. The role of Central Government in this respect should be advisory in nature and much of the assistance it can render towards decentralised planning has to be channelled through the state governments to reach the local governments. The 73rd and 74th Amendments to the Indian Constitution have already initiated the process of administrative decentralisation to the local bodies. Article 243G of the Constitution of India made the provisions that the states may endow the panchayats with such powers and authority as may be necessary to enable them to function as institution of self-government. - Reproduced.
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Globalisation indicating a growing integration of economies and societies around the world is a complex process. This process has influences on individuals and institutions of the countries. With the process of opening up and integration with the outside world, the domestic institutions responsible for development need lot of reorientation for meeting with the challenges. India has embarked on the path of planned economic development in the overall framework of mixed economy where both public and private sector have freedom to operate side by side. There are advantages and problems associated with both centralised and decentralised planning strategies. The role of Central Government in this respect should be advisory in nature and much of the assistance it can render towards decentralised planning has to be channelled through the state governments to reach the local governments. The 73rd and 74th Amendments to the Indian Constitution have already initiated the process of administrative decentralisation to the local bodies. Article 243G of the Constitution of India made the provisions that the states may endow the panchayats with such powers and authority as may be necessary to enable them to function as institution of self-government. - Reproduced.
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