Governance and Panchayati Raj Institutions
Rural Development Governance: Are Panchayati Raj Institutions designed Deliver? A Case Study of PRIS post 73rd amendment In Andhraprdesh Prof.Ravindra Shastri1 Mr.H. Vageeshan2
The paper briefly discusses the status of Panchayats right from the beginning of Indian republic and tries to bring out the bias towards centralization in the constitution. Later goes in to illustrate the case of Andhraprdesh in the pre and post Seventy Third Constitution Amendment. It deals with the process of de politicization of development in the state for the past two decades. Then delves in to the coincidence of faster liberalization agenda and deficient decentralization process. It tries to touch up on the contradiction between the agend of economic liberalization and decentralized democratic debate. Further paper sheds some light on disconnect between the political awareness and democratic consciousness. It concludes by high lighting the potential of democratic
decentralization to unleash democratic transformative agenda if properly nurtured.
The Road for development the early debates
After a journey of more than six decades rural development is still an important issue for India which has equal importance with national defense. It is an all encompassing concept for over all well being of majority of India. Rural reconstruction was priority for India since the dawn of independence. The path to rural Development is very much
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Professor head of the department Political science ,Osmania University Political Science Lecturer in political science In NALSAR university of law and a reaserch cscholor nthe department of Political science Osmania University
contested. The debate around the road to social revolution was taken up in the congress party as well as in the he Constituent Assembly Debates3.Decentralization for social and economic transformation was not a choice of the makers of the constitution. A consensus was built around It was concluded at that time that
The paper briefly discusses the status of Panchayats right from the beginning of Indian republic and tries to bring out the bias towards centralization in the constitution. Later goes in to illustrate the case of Andhraprdesh in the pre and post Seventy Third Constitution Amendment. It deals with the process of de politicization of development in the state for the past two decades. Then delves in to the coincidence of faster liberalization agenda and deficient decentralization process. It tries to touch up on the contradiction between the agend of economic liberalization and decentralized democratic debate. Further paper sheds some light on disconnect between the political awareness and democratic consciousness. It concludes by high lighting the potential of democratic
decentralization to unleash democratic transformative agenda if properly nurtured.
The Road for development the early debates
After a journey of more than six decades rural development is still an important issue for India which has equal importance with national defense. It is an all encompassing concept for over all well being of majority of India. Rural reconstruction was priority for India since the dawn of independence. The path to rural Development is very much
1 2
Professor head of the department Political science ,Osmania University Political Science Lecturer in political science In NALSAR university of law and a reaserch cscholor nthe department of Political science Osmania University
contested. The debate around the road to social revolution was taken up in the congress party as well as in the he Constituent Assembly Debates3.Decentralization for social and economic transformation was not a choice of the makers of the constitution. A consensus was built around It was concluded at that time that
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