Local Governance in India: Ideas, Challenges and Strategies

This compendium of twenty-eight papers makes a performance appraisal of the local governance mechanism in India for the first ten years of its mandatory existence. It throws light on the ideas behind these institutions, the challenges they face and the strategies to contain them. Attempting at understanding local governance, the contributors deliberate on decentralisation and development, people’s participation in local governance, dynamics and challenges of local governance and the emerging paradigm of local governance. The book will be useful for policy-makers, researchers and development workers.