After its detachment from the bigger state of Panjab, the Haryana economy has sustained a lot of economic dynamism bringing productive prosperity to its villages but this rural transformation lacked the institutional scaffolding of Panchayati Raj, a vital organ of participative democracy in the rest of India. The Haryana Panchayati Raj Act, 1994 has rectified this sorry state of affairs with the regular elections to the new bodies being held in April 1995. This ...
