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100			_aAhmad, Furqan
245			_aDecentralised governance and people participation in local government
260			_c2011
300			_ap.234-241.
362			_aApr-Jun
520			_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.
650			_aDecentralization
700			_aAli, Akhtar
773			_aIndian Journal of Public Administration
908			_aN
909			_a92635
999			_c92635 _d92635