Local Governments in Rural West Bengal, India and their Coordination with Line Departments

In India, the 73rd constitutional amendment of 1992 decentralises agriculture, irrigation, health, education along with 23 other items to the Panchayats, the village level self-government body. It is envisaged that the three-tier Panchayat system at the District, Block and the Village level would co...

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Main Authors: Bhaskar Chakrabarti, Raghabendra Chattopadhyay, Suman Nath
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: UTS ePRESS 2011-12-01
Series:Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance
Online Access:https://learning-analytics.info/journals/index.php/cjlg/article/view/2411