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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

What do you understand by decentralisation of power? What is its role in strengthening the roots of democracy in India? Elaborate.

  • UPSC 2024
  • 20 marks
  • Politics and Society in India

Decentralisation of power is the transfer of authority, resources and personnel from a central body to subordinate or local units. Article 40 made it a directive; the 73rd and 74th Constitutional Amendments (1992) made it an obligation. The question asks both what the concept means and whether moving power downward actually strikes democratic roots.

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  • What is transferred: three forms
  • Why scale matters for democracy
  • How devolution has deepened Indian democracy
  • The conditions that decide whether roots hold
  • Conclusion

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