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In the volume, Prof. Amal Manda explores nuances and outcomes of the Gram Sabha as it functions in India. The Gram Sabha is seen as the instrument for making local governance participatory, transparent and accountable in the real sense. Surveying data and information obtained from Gram Panchayats across the state of West Bengal in eastern India, he examines to what extent the Gram Sabha has evolved as an institution of the villagers with the purpose of serving ...
With the statutory reservation provision more than one million rural women have now assumed Panchayat seats as member and one-third of them as chairperson in almost all States and Union Territories. The induction of women in Panchayat institutions is in sharp contrast to their representation in other political strata as well as in earlier Panchayat institutions. But the very integration of women has evoked conflicting waves—elation, euphoria particularly in ...
This empirically rooted presentation provides within a cover comprehensive account of few rural development issues like panchayat politics, panchayat finance, panchayat leadership, people’s participation, primary education, public health and tea garden. The investigative essays contribute to the debate on rural development, particularly in West Bengal and India in general. In West Bengal the pro-poor orientation and ideological commitment of the ruling ...