Governance of Cities, Villages and Beyond: Decentralisation and Localising SDGs Agenda

Article 40 of the Constitution lays down that the state would take steps to establish autonomous bodies in the form of village panchayats and the idea of planning from below was made in the 3rd five year plan with three-tier system of Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) recommendation by Balwant Rai Mehta Committee (1957). Following that, in the 6th five year plan a committee on Panchayati Raj headed by Ashok Mehta was appointed by the Government of India, to draw up the block level planning, one of the major recommendations of the committee was to strengthen financial resources of the PRIs. The process of discourse and deliberations on local governance and Decentralisation took further three decades till 10th five year plan (GoI, n.d)…

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