Modalities for people’s participation

In spite of 74th Amendment visualizes the people’s participation’ as one of the main objectives, the people’s actual participation in the Municipal affairs of the city is still limited, Major cause of this attitude is that the people look towards the Municipal bodies with inherent suspicion and take it for granted that their problems and grievances will not be taken care of ‘democratic decentralization’ is an extension of the democratic principle aims at widening the area of the people’s participation, authority and autonomy through disperson or devolution of powers to people’s representative organizations from the top levels to the lowest levels in all the three dimensions of political decision-making, financial control and administrative management with least interference and control from higher levels.

Mahatma Gandhi, in 1946 had rightly remarked that the Indian independence must begin at the bottom and every village ought to be a Republic of Panchayat having powers.

It is a welcome phenomenon that scvcral cconomists have started discovering a new virtuc in the concept of political decentralisation to ensure people’s participation at the grassroots level so as to allow the gains of development to reach them.

Assuring that people’s participation involvement and ultimate taking over the Community Development programmes by the local institutions was the heart of the message.

The Committee was faced with the puzzle of exploring the low level of activity in terms of people’s participation in post -intensive phase, the entire objective of transforming the programme from a “Government Programme with people’s participation” would be defeated

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