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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note : Decentralisation of power and local development.

  • UPSC 1994
  • Politics and Society in India

The development case for decentralisation is informational, not merely administrative: those who live with a problem know it best, monitor its solution closely, and maintain what they helped plan. Centralised planning fails less from want of resources than from distance.

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  • Why local decision-making improves outcomes
  • The strongest Indian illustration: Kerala's People's Plan Campaign
  • Instruments that make it accountable
  • Where the link breaks
  • Conclusion

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