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Comment: Role of Gram Sabha under the Constitution (Seventy-third-Amendment) Act, 1992.

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  • Grassroots Democracy

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The gram sabha was the L. M. Singhvi Committee's (1986) chief idea: the village electorate, not its council, as the base of decentralised democracy. The 73rd Amendment wrote it into the Constitution as its only direct-democratic body, but gave it no powers of its own. Its role is therefore whatever state legislatures choose to give…

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