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Resurgent Rural India: Decade After the Constitutionalisation of Panchayati Raj

 
M R Biju (Author)
Synopsis Part IX and Part IX A of the Constitution of India dealing with Panchayats and Municipalities respectively are the most detailed amendments made to the constitution since its promulgation more than half a century ago. If implemented in letter and spirit, the two parts hold the promise of a silent revolution that would dramatically alter the outlook for grassroots developments by endowing power to the people, in both rural and urban India. Unfortunately, in the fourteen years since the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha passed the legislation and almost thirteen years since Part IX was gazetted with the Presidents consent on Twenty-Fourth April 1993, the results on the ground have fallen far short of expectations.  But the operationalisation of the Seventy-Third Constitution Amendment has no doubt generated a great deal of interest among all concerned. The Panchayati Raj reforms being carried out in different states are under close scrutiny in this volume, to know the extent to which the objectives of the Seventy-Third Constitutional Amendment are being met. Moreover, the present study Resurgent Rural India was undertaken with a view to examine the critical issues such as extent and effectiveness in the implementation of decentralization, functional and financial devolution, changing role of the Gram Sabha, women's participation and perception in the PRIs, rural development and PRIs in the era of globalization and the role of the PRI's in uplifting human rights values and ensuring social justice at the grassroots level. Fourteen years have lapsed since the Seventy-Third Amendment came into force and the whole new generation of PRIs has had an opportunity to initiate the process of self-governance at the grassroots level. Hence, the time is ripe enough to make an analytical study of how the PRIs have evolved in various states across the nation.
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About the author

M R Biju

M.R. Biju (b. 1965), recipient of the Post-Doctoral Research Award of the University Grants Commission, is a Prolific writer on Socio-Political and developmental issues. He has authored five outstanding books and over seventy research papers published in prestigious journals. Some of these have been abstracted in the International Political Science Abstracts. He is also eddying an international journal "South Asian Journal of Socio-Political Studies (SAJOSPS). His books include Politics of Democracy and Decentralisation in India (1997), Dynamics of New Panchayti Raj System: Reflections and Retrospections (1998), Parliamentary Democracy and Political Change in India (1999), India's Foreign Policy: Towards a New Millennium (2000) and Decentralisation: The Indian Experience (2005). Forthcoming volumes include: (a) Sustainable Development and Tourism, (b) Women's Empowerment: Politics and Policies.

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Title Resurgent Rural India: Decade After the Constitutionalisation of Panchayati Raj
Author M R Biju
Format Hardcover
Date published: 24.08.2007
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher Authors Press
Language: English
isbn 817273378X
length xiv+336p., Tables.
Subjects History