01155nam a22001097a 4500008004100000100003300041245010300074260002000177300003600197520079200233773002001025251107b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aAlok, V.N. and Sajwan, Raju   a‘A separate local government service commission can be set up to recruit panchayat employees’   aDown to Earth    a34(10), Oct 1-15, 2025: p.52-53  a The 73rd amendments to the constitution of India calls upon states to enact lows that enables panchyats to function as local government. To assess the extent of this devolution of power, the union ministry of Panchayat Raj has studied and ranked the states since 2004. The most recent of these studies. “Status of devolution to Panchayats in India: An indicative evidence bossed ranking 2024; released in February 2025, has been prepared by the Indian Institute of public administration (IIPA) Delhi, and uses a devolution index to rank the sates. V.N. Alok author of the study and professor of IIPA since 1999, tells Raju Sajwan that due to weak tax collection systems, the renew generated by Panchayats is not sufficient , which hinders their functioning excerpts.   – Reproduced   aDown to Earth