Corruption in Local Government
Abstract:
Local government is the grass root level governance which is related to the development of a country. To improve governance of a state Govt. must remove corruption from all tiers of local government. In this assignment we try to our best to finding out corruption in local government with proper field investigation, and then we should give some recommendation to remove corruption from local government.
Introduction:
It is beyond doubt that good governance requires the functioning of effective autonomous political institution. Local government is such type of institution having a fixed area which can play fruitful role in creating political leadership, ensuring popular participation, developing accountable administration and planning and implanting people oriented development programmes. It’s birth only for creating amenities and serving the local people. But its development is seriously hampered by local level corruption.
First of all we have to know What is Local Government?
Local Government:
Generally Local Government means a government system of a fixed and smaller area of a country. Let’s see some other definitions.
1. According to W.A Robson, Local government means the people of affixed territory who have legal power formwork for conducting their functions, but they have no sovereign power. 2. Encyclopedia of Social Science has defined, Local Government which has a territorial non-sovereign community having the legal right and the necessary organization to regulate its own affairs.
3. An administrative body for a small geographic area, such as a city, town, county, or state.
A local government will typically only have control over their specific geographical region, and cannot pass or enforce laws that will affect a wider area. Local governments can elect officials, enact taxes, and do many other things that a national government would do, just on a smaller scale.
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