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100			_aPalanidurai, K.V
245			_aDemocratic decentralisation in India - retrospect and prospects
520			_aThe author has traced chronologically developments relating to establishment of Local Self-Government Institutions in the country. He has narrated the experiences of a few States which have attempted democratic decentralisation. Still, the position does not alter from 1978 which the Ashok Mehta Committee Report has excellently epitomised in the following words: "An overview of the national scene would indicate that the activities of PRIs were meagre, their resource base weak and the overall attention given to them niggardly." The author, thereafter, reviews the recent Constitution Amendment Bills (seventy second and seventy third) introduced in the Lok Sabha on the 16th September, 1991. He concludes that un
650			_a Panchayati Raj - India
650			_a District Administration - India
650			_a Local Government
650			_a Decentralisation
650			_aVillage Panchayats - India
773			_aThe Administrator
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