01471pab a2200145 454500008004000000100001800040245007400058260000900132300001500141362001200156520107600168650002101244700001601265773004401281180718b2011   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aAhmad, Furqan  aDecentralised governance and people participation in local government  c2011  ap.234-241.  aApr-Jun  aThe period since the 1980s has seen a global trend toward political democratisation and pluralism, economic liberalisation, and transitions to a market-oriented economy, although varied from country to country and region to region. In this light, increasing attention has come to be paid to the importance of people's broader participation in local development. India's decentralisation experiments since Independence have in various ways tried to address the issues of both development and people participation. This article undertakes a critical analysis of people participation for good governance at grassroots level. It focuses on decentralisation as a way of enhancing the effectiveness of people participation in local development. In addition, the changing face of local development in the overall national development agenda and the consistent evolution of local development policy are traced and evaluated. The article concludes that effective local people participation must specifically relate to effective devolution of power to the localities. - Reproduced.  aDecentralization  aAli, Akhtar  aIndian Journal of Public Administration