Panchayati Raj Reforms in India: Power to the People at the Grassroots

Foreword. Preface. 1. Introduction: Panchayati Raj reforms and empowerment of grassroots democratic institutions in India/D. Sundar Ram. 2. Panchayati Raj in India: an instrument of grassroots development/Mani Shankar Aiyar. 3. Panchayati Raj Institutions in India: power to the people/Subhash C. Kashyap. 4. Institutions of local self-government in India: a distance dream/L.C. Jain. 5. Federation of Panchayati women in India: beginning of a social transformation/V. Mohini Giri. 6. Panchayati Raj Institutions in India: real powers and responsibilities/C.B. Muthamma. 7. District as a focus of change: a critical element of decentralisation/K.C. Sivaramakrishnan. 8. Role of NGO’s and administrator’s in grassroots governance of India/M. Gopalakrishnan. 9. Planning for development at grassroots in India: Tamil Nadu experience/G. Palanithurai. 10. The Panchayats and the administrators: need for new culture for development at the grassroots/George Mathew. 11. Capacity building for effective local self-governance: the Indian experience/Rajesh Tandon. 12. Strengthening rural democracy in India: a case study of Rajasthan/N.S. Gehlot. 13. Decentralised governance at grassroots level: experience of Panchayati Raj in Madhya Pradesh/Yatindra Singh Sisodia. 14. Gram Sabha: its problems and prospects after 73 Constitutional Amendment/Y. Bhaskar Rao. 15. Empowerment of women: experiences of women elected representatives of grassroots democratic institutions: the case of Tamil Nadu/G. Palanithurai. 16. Status of district planning committees in India: experiences of a decade/S. Harsha. 17. The experiences of empowering women Panchayat Members in India: problems, challenges and opportunities/Nupur Tiwary. Appendices. Index.