Local Governance in India Decentralization and Beyond

by Jayal, Niraja Gopal; Prakash, Amit; Sharma, Pradeep

• ISBN13: 9780195678376
• ISBN10: 0195678370
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-04-13
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This collection analyzes the complexity of local governance, both rural and urban, in contemporary India. It argues that there is more to local governance than a focus on decentralization. The internationally known contributors look at some of the lesser-known aspects of the interface between panchayats and other institutes of local governance.

Table of Contents

Tables, Figures, and Boxes	viii
Preface	xi
Acknowledgements	xv
Introduction	1	(26)
Niraja Gopal Jayal
I. Panchayati Raj And Traditional Institutions Of Governance
Selection by Custom and Election by Statute: Interfaces in Local Governance in Karnataka	27	(20)
Kripa Ananth Pur
Van Panchayats in Uttaranchal	47	(50)
Ashok Kumar
II. Panchayati Raj And The Administrative Structure
Writers' Building and the Reality of Decentralized Rural Power: Some Paradoxes and Reversals in West Bengal	97	(28)
Dwaipayan Bhattacharyya
Panchayats, Bureaucracy, and Poverty Alleviation in Uttar Pradesh	125	(24)
Ravi S. Srivastava
III. Local Governance And Sectoral Experiences
Decentralization and Disease Control Programmes: The Case of Filariasis	149	(13)
Rama V. Baru
Meena Gopal
The New Segregation in Primary Education: Implications for Local Governance	162	(27)
Vimala Ramachandran
Aarti Saihjee
Crisis of Governance and People's Alternatives: Schooling System in Some Villages of Western UP	189	(13)
Jagpal Singh
IV. Urban Governance
People-centred Development and Participatory Urban Governance: The Mumbai Experience	202	(19)
Marina R. Pinto
Urban Futures of Poor Groups in Chennai and Bangalore: How these are Shaped by the Relationships between Parastatals and Local Bodies	221	(47)
Solomon Benjamin
R. Bhuvaneswari
Developing a Quantitative Framework for Determining Devolution of Funds from the State Government to Local Bodies	268	(28)
Ajit Karnik
Abhay Pethe
Dilip Karmarkar
Urban Local Bodies and District Administration: An Empirical Examination of Some Issues Relating to Urban Water Supply in Karnataka	296	(28)
K.P. Krishnan
V. Gender And Local Governance
Mainstreaming Gender in District Plans in Madhya Pradesh	324	(31)
Anwar Jafri
Vikas Singh
VI. Participation, Transparency, And Accountability
Accountability in Local Governance: Infrastructure Development, in the Industrial Townships of Faridabad and Gurgaon	355	(30)
Amita Singh
Transparency, Accountability, and Governance: Local Government in Kerala and Karnataka	385	(26)
V. Vijayalakshmi
The Salience of Poverty, Participation, Transparency, and Security in Good Urban Governance	411	(14)
Rama Nath Jha
Contributors	425