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Enunciate the impediments to women’s participation in local governance in the process of political decentralisation.

  • UPSC 2025
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  • Grassroots Democracy

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Political decentralisation — the transfer of authority to elected local bodies, as distinct from administrative deconcentration — was meant to make governance inclusive and just. Articles 243D and 243T secured the entry of women, whose share now stands near 46% with over twenty states at half. But Pranab Bardhan and Dilip Mookherjee warn that decentralisation…

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