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Comment: The Panchayati Raj institutions and district administration should develop a new relationship for achieving the goal of good governance.

  • UPSC 2007
  • 20 marks
  • Grassroots Democracy

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The district is where the Indian state meets the citizen, and it still runs on a colonial blueprint: the Collector as revenue chief, magistrate and coordinator of everything. The 73rd Amendment placed an elected zila parishad beside him without redrawing the lines between them. The statement is right. Good governance, which means accountability, responsiveness and…

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  • The old relationship: deconcentration dressed as devolution
  • The case for a new relationship
  • The new relationship, specified
  • The caution
  • Conclusion
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