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This directory covers important institutions, universities, colleges and other expertise in the country has two parts. Part A deals with expertise available in the field of industrial pollution management and control, and it is further divided into five sections. Information pertaining to Indian Institute of Technology (IITs) and Engineering Colleges is placed in Section 1, while Section II covers university departments. National institutions are included in ...
Since independence several attempts were made to find a space for the panchayati raj institutions (PRIs) in Indian polity. However, barring Maharashtra, Gujarat and West Bengal, the PRIs could never survive elsewhere in the country. This led to the necessity of constitutionalizing panchayats in 1992, an attempt which also met with limited success. Why were PRIs retained in certain states even without a constitutional mandate? Conversely, why did others lag ...
Despite the considerable literature on the subject and the innumerable experiments at making it work, decentralization remains an enigma today. The basic objective of this large-scale study is to reconstruct the contemporary history of decentralization in India with a view to understanding its impact on democratization. This is done with reference and Madhya Pradesh-which represent three generations of panchayats. The author assesses the contribution of these ...