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“An effective three-tier Panchayat Raj System will strengthen the bottom-up approach to multilevel planning in India.” Explain.

  • UPSC 2017
  • Regional Development and Planning

The 73rd Constitutional Amendment (1992) made the three-tier structure mandatory for every State above twenty lakh population — Gram Panchayat at the village, Panchayat Samiti at the block, Zila Parishad at the district — giving the sub-State territory, for the first time, an elected rather than a purely administrative planning frame.

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  • The three tiers are a planning hierarchy, not merely a governance hierarchy
  • What travels upward — the Eleventh Schedule
  • The consolidation node — Article 243ZD
  • Why this strengthens bottom-up multilevel planning
  • The word doing the work is effective

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