Author Description

The author covers a host of important issues including - Panchayats as a Linkage: Relating Accelerated Growth with Inclusive Growth - Institutional Arrangements: Functions, Functionaries and Finances for Panchayats - Panchayats in Planning and Implementation, and - Gram Sabhas Understanding grassroots governance in the context of existing political system as also recognizing the needs of the people, this volume will be of constant interest to students and scholars of politics, history and sociology, as well as to social activists and journalists.