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Discuss 73rd and 74th Constitutional Amendments with reference to decentralization of power.

  • UPSC 1999
  • Politics and Society in India

Before 1993 local government existed at the pleasure of the State legislature, which could supersede an elected panchayat and postpone elections indefinitely. The 73rd and 74th Constitutional Amendments (1992, in force 1993) converted it into a constitutional order with its own articles, schedules, electoral machinery and finance. The question is how far that architecture decentralises…

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  • The rural architecture: Part IX, Articles 243 to 243-O
  • The urban counterpart: Part IX-A, Articles 243-P to 243-ZG
  • What it devolved — and what it withheld
  • Conclusion

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