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100			_aRamanathan, Ramesh
245			_aFederalism, urban decentralisation and citizen participation
260			_c2007
300			_ap.674-81.
362			_a24 Feb
520			_aWhile panchayati raj institutions for the rural areas, created after great and prolonged struggle, have given rural dwellers their self-governance structures and a fair degree of empowerment, nothing similar has been done for urban dwellers. Participatory involvement of citizens in and accountability of local self-governance structures are almost totally absent in urban areas. The author discusses the work of a non-governmental organisation in which he is actively involved in attempting to create informal structures that seek to redress this shortcoming and offers a charter for more formally recognised structures that could be organised on a wider scale to give the urban dweller a voice. - Reproduced.
650			_aFederalism
650			_aUrban development
773			_aEconomic and Political Weekly
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909			_a73355
999			_c73355 _d73355