Panchayati Raj and Empowering People : New Agenda for Rural India: Essays in Honour of Shri Mani Shankar Aiyar Book

Contents: Foreword. Preface. List of contributors. Shri Mani Shankar Aiyar: a profile. Introduction: Panchayati Raj and empowering people: new agenda for rural India/D. Sundar Ram. 1. Panchayati Raj Institutions in contemporary India: future agenda/M.V. Rajasekharan. 2. Panchayati Raj Institutions in India: Rajiv Gandhi’s vision/Rameshwar Thakur. 3. Indian farmers in 21 century: mission and vision/M.S. Swaminathan. 4. Potential for social transformation and economic prosperity through decentralised governance under the new dispensation/G. Palanithurai. 5. Empowering Panchayati Raj Institutions: a study in Karnataka/Abdul Aziz. 6. Panchayati Raj and political parties’ participation/George Mathew. 7. Women in Panchayati Raj Institutions: some facts and observations/K. Subha and B.S. Bhargava. 8. Decentralised governance and service delivery in India: theory and practice/Satyanarayana Sangita. 9. Historical perspective of finances of Local Self-Governmental Institutions in India: problems and prospects/P. Arjun Rao. 10. External factors and empowerment of women: the case of Orissa/Snehalata Panda. 11. Rural employment: measures for capacity building and training — the missing links/I.C. Srivastava. 12. Political decentralisation and issue of accountability: the case of Gram Sabha in Karnataka/N. Sivanna. 13. Between Euphoria and Scepticism: ten years of Panchayati Raj in Kerala/Moolakkattu Stephen John and Jos Chathukulam. 14. Panchayat finances in India: a macro study/M. Devendra Babu. 15. Panchayati Raj: Popular participation for rural transformation–an appraisal/K.S. Mohan Narayana. 16. National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme: Social transformation and beyond/J. Ramesh Sundar, Ms. Mohana Priyamurthy and Ms. V. Veenavathy. 17. Rural development and dynamics of change in democratic governance: role of Panchayati Raj Institutions in India/D. Sundar Ram. 18. Political economy of preparedness and launching of National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in Kerala/Jos Chathukulam and K. Gireesan. 19. Participatory democracy: role of Gram Sabhas in decentralised governance–an overview of Andhra Pradesh experience/M. Gopinath Reddy and Madhusudan Bandi. 20. Role of Dalits in Village Water Supply Committee/Veerashekharappa. 21. Community development and democratic decentralisation: a scheme of participative governance/Khalid Mirza. 22. Needs and importance of skills for youth leaders in local governance/M. Sarumathy. 23. Women in Panchayati Raj Institutions: participation, performance and problems/R. Venkata Ravi, D. Sundar Raj and V. Narayana Reddy. 24. Panchayats and the agricultural future of Indian amidst localisation and globalisation/P.C. Mathur. 25. Evolving: approaches to multi-level planning in India: a brief review/Rakesh Hooja. 26. Activating Panchas and Ward Sabhas: a remedy for large unwieldy Gram Sabhas and dominating Sarpanchas/Meenakshi Hooja. 27. Realising potential of Panchayati Raj in India/N.C. Saxena and Jayanti Ravi. 28. People’s campaign for democratic decentralisation and planning: Kasaragod experience in Kerala/M.V. Balakrishnan Master and V.P.P. Mustafa. 29. National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme: some observations/I. Satya Sundaram. 30. Future is federal: local governance in the era of ‘Globalisation’/B. Ramesh Babu. 31. People’s participation in Kerala’s Gram Sabhas: investigating the quality/J. Mary John and Mohanan Bhaskaran Pillai. Appendices. Index.