Panchayati Raj System in Independent India


 
 
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Panchayati Raj, Urban Local Self-Government

  • The system of self-government by the local people is called local self-government.
  • Village and district level governance is called Local Governance. The subject of local governance is the problems of the common citizen and his everyday life.
  • Local institutions are known as the backbone of democracy.
  • Panchayati Raj System in Independent India

  • The Constitution makers have instructed the State to establish Panchayati Raj Rule under Article 40 under the Directive Principles (Part IX) of the Constitution in accordance with the Gandhian model.
  • Several options were implemented for rural development under the Five Year Plans.
  • The Community Development Program was started on 2 October 1952 as the first rural development project.
  • Panchayati Raj first emerged in independent India in Nagaur district of Rajasthan.
  • On 12 September 1959, the Rajasthan Legislature first passed the Panchayat Samiti and Zila Parishad Act and in its implementation, on 2 October 1959, the first Prime Minister of India, Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru started at Bagdari village in Nagaur district, Rajasthan.
  • On 11 October 1959, Pt Jawaharlal Nehru inaugurated the three-tier form of Panchayati Raj in Andhra Pradesh.
  • The period from 1960 to 1980 is called the crisis period of Panchayati Raj because Panchayati institutions became powerless and dead due to the Powerlessness of the State governments, so the Ashok Mehta Committee was formed in 1977 to review Panchayati Raj
  • Efforts to improve Panchayati Raj System

  • Balwant Rai Mehta Committee, 1957
  • Ashok Mehta Committee, 1977
  • P.V.K. Rao Committee, 1985
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