Panchayat Raj Institutions Notes | LL.M. (Two Years) Semester 4 | KSLU | munotes

Contents

Unit I

1. Panchayat Raj Institutions: What This Paper Covers, and How to Read This Book 1
2. Democracy and Decentralisation 4
3. Democratic Decentralisation and Local Self-Government 9
4. Local Self-Government and Federalism 16
5. Local Government in Ancient India 21
6. Local Government in British India 26
7. Panchayat Raj After Independence, 1947 to 1992 31
8. The Constituent Assembly and the Village 36
9. Gandhi and Village Swaraj 41
10. Ambedkar and the Village 46
11. Article 40: Organisation of Village Panchayats 51
12. Principles of Local Governance 55

Unit II

1. The Balwant Rai Mehta Committee, 1957 60
2. The Ashok Mehta Committee, 1978 65
3. The G.V.K. Rao and L.M. Singhvi Committees 70
4. Why the Constitution Has a Part on Panchayats 75
5. The Gram Sabha, and the Three Tiers 79
6. Composition, and Reservation of Seats 83
7. Duration, and Disqualification 88
8. Where Part IX Does Not Reach 93
9. The Eleventh Schedule 99
10. Women in Local Government 103
11. Reservation for the Weaker Sections 107
12. Panchayats and the Socialist State 113
13. The Panchayats (Extension to the Scheduled Areas) Act 1996 118
14. Land, Forest and the Gram Sabha's Consent 123

Unit III

1. What a Panchayat Is Given To Do 131
2. Democratising Panchayats by Law 135
3. The Karnataka Gram Swaraj and Panchayat Raj Act 1993 139
4. Directive Principles of Panchayat Policy 144
5. The Habitation Sabha and the Ward Sabha 148
6. The Gram Sabha in Karnataka 153
7. The Grama Panchayat: Members, Adhyaksha and Committees 158
8. What a Grama Panchayat Does 162
9. The Taluk Panchayat 167
10. The Zilla Panchayat 171
11. Control Over Panchayats in Karnataka 175

Unit IV

1. Panchayat Finance 180
2. What Karnataka Panchayats Can Raise 185
3. The State Finance Commission 190
4. The Finance Commission 194
5. Finance Commission Grants to Panchayats 200
6. Panchayat Elections 204
7. Panchayat Elections in Karnataka 208
8. Criminalisation of Politics in Panchayats 213
9. Staff and Money: Personnel and Financial Resources 218
10. Caste and the Panchayat 222
11. What the 73rd and 74th Amendments Achieved 227

Unit V

1. Panchayats as Development Institutions: Planning From Below 233
2. The District Planning Committee 237
3. Panchayats and Centrally Sponsored Schemes 241
4. Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Gramin) 244
5. Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana 247
6. Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan and Samagra Shiksha 250
7. Rural Employment and Panchayats: MGNREGA and the 2025 Act 253
8. The Right to Education Act and Local Authorities 258
9. The Food Security Act and Panchayats 262
10. The Disaster Management Act and Local Authorities 266