Governance at Grassroots Level in India
Contents: Preface. 1. Panchayati Raj in Haryana: an overview/S.S. Chahar. 2. Ten-year journey of new Panchayats/George Mathew. 3. Augmenting the financial resources of sub-national governments (Panchayati Raj Institutions) in India/O.P. Bohra. 4. The 73 constitution amendment and the local resource base: a critical appraisal/S.N. Mishra. 5. Women in Panchayati Raj Institutions: a study of the participation in the decision-making process/Surat Singh. 6. Empowerment of Panchayati Raj Institutions in Rajasthan/P.R. Sharma and Ravindra Sharma. 7. Decentralised planning in India: myth or reality/U.B. Singh. 8. Decentralisation and good governance: a question of responsiveness in the era of globalisation/Chaitali Pal. 9. Decentralised and empowered institutions of local governance: the reforms Panchayats must undergo/Suresh Misra. 10. District Planning Committee: problems and prospects/S.K. Singh. 11. Emerging rural leadership in Haryana: a study of Zila Parishads/Mohinder Singh. 12. Women empowerment and Panchayati Raj/S.S. Malik. 13. Empowering women for rural development: rocky road ahead/Manjusha Sharma. 14. Participatory local governance: Can Gram Sabha deliver?/Rajvir S. Dhaka and Jagbir Singh Narwal. 15. Dalit women in Panchayati Raj Institutions: a case study/Sunita Dhaka. 16. The nature of women leadership in Panchayats of Haryana/Jitender Prasad. 17. Municipal resources and expenditure: structure and trends/Rajesh Kukar. 18. Mobilization of financial resources by Panchayati Raj Institutions: a study/R.K. Kundu and Suman Lata. 19. Working of rural Panchayats: Gram Sabha, Panchayat Samiti and Zila Parishad/Rajbeer Singh Dalal. 20. The Haryana Panchayat Raj Act, 1994: Constitutionality of section 175 (1) (q)/Naresh Kumar. 21. Panchayati Raj system: blow hot blow cold approach of the government/P.S. Lathwal. 22. Service Delivery System through local government/Rajbans Singh Gill and Navneet Kaur. 23. Functioning of Panchayati Raj in India/Vimal Joshi. 24. Working of rural Panchayats: an analytical study of Panchayat Samiti/Kuldeep Singh. 25. Decentralized planning and the 73/74 constitutional amendment acts/Sewa Singh and Ravindra Singh. 26. Are the Panchayats Institutions of self-government or instruments of self-aggrandisement?/Raj Kumar Siwach. 27. Introduction of Village Development Committees in Haryana: a step towards debureaucratisation of Panchayati Raj/R.S. Gulia and Neera. 28. Pattern of grassroots level leadership in rural Haryana: an analytical study/Shashi Mehra. 29. Local governments: problems and prospects/Raju Goyal. Index.
