GLIMPSES OF LOCAL GOVERNANCE
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Bijoyini Mohanty
2012, Kunal Books, New Delhi
ISBN 987-93-80752-88-4
Local Administration has covered a great journey from the initiatives of central (+ provincial) government in one hand and cooperation and participation of local people in the other. With marching towards excellence, it has incorporated democratic endeavors like election, popular participation, council formation and decision making and had been looked upon as the Nursery of democracy.
Technological developments have ushered the modern city with all its gadgets to be administered in a sophisticated way, the villages, alike, have more elements of city in their milieu to be managed in requisite style. The newer imports to the grassroots democracy have been transparency, accountability, responsiveness leading to good governance. Further ramification of governance with involvement of external elements into the ambit of local administration like e-governance, citizens charter, civil society, citizen centric administration and importantly, the globalized patterns in the globalized world have brought about the essence of Local Governance. It is not the same old wine in new bottle, rather generation forward to step into direct democracy. This book deals in details the background and realities in Local Governance with many more issues and trends in local affairs. It will be great help for the students and researchers in the subject.
The book contains: Concept of Local Government and Local Governance; Pattern of Local Government in England, France and U.S.A.; Urban Local Government in India; Urban Local Government in Odisha; Rural Local Government in India; Rural Local Government in Odisha; Reforms in Local Governments: 73rd and 74th Constitutional Amendments; Autonomy of Local Governments; Problems and Prospects of Local Governance; Poverty Alleviation Programmes; Miscellaneous Issues and Trends in Local Governance.