Local Self-government In India
Panchayati Raj (Rule of Village Committee) Panchayati Raj system is a three-tier system in the state with elected bodies at the Village, Taluk and District levels. It ensures greater participation of people and more effective implementation of rural development programmes. There will be a Grama Panchayat for a village or group of villages, a Taluk level and the Zilla Panchayat at the district level.
India has a chequered history of panchayati raj starting from a self-sufficient and self-governing village communities that survived the rise and fall of empires in the past to the modern institutions of governance at the third tier provided with Constitutional support.
Read more about Local Self-government In India: Early History, During British Rule, Post-independence Period, The Balwant Rai Mehta Committee (1957), Ashok Mehta Committee (1978), G.V.K. Rao Committee (1985), L.M.Singhvi Committee (1986), The 73rd Constitutional Amendment Act, Present Scenario, See Also
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