Tag: basics of rural development

• In India, seats are reserved for women in Panchayat Raj bodies which are local self-governing bodies.
  
• According to 73rd amendment, out of the total number of seats to be filled by the direct elections for local self-governing bodies, 1/3rd have to be reserved for women.
  

According to the census of India, an urban area should have following characteristics:

• A minimum population of 5,000.
  
• At least 75 percent of the working population engaged in non-agricultural occupations.
  
• A density of population of at least 400 persons per sq. km is required.
  

The Indian Administrative Service is the All India administrative civil service. Indian Administrative Services is the permanent bureaucracy in India. It forms an inseparable part of the executive branch of the Government of India. A person of the Indian Administrative Services is appointed to various posts in the State and Central Governments, and in Municipal Corporation, and Public Sector Undertakings. They are responsible for the law and order situation of the city along with general administration and development work of the areas under their charge.

In order to decentralise power and to make the policies available to the people of even remote areas government has introduced three tier system of local governing bodies in the rural areas.

Village panchayats are the basic units of panchayat Raj system. These village panchayats became central to the ideological framework of India's national movement under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi.

• This committee suggested for constitutional recognition of Panchayat Raj System.
  
• The 72^nd and 73^rd constitutional amendment belong to rural area local self-government. They came to force in the year 1991.
  
• Constitutional amendment by which rural self-government was constitutionally recognized is the 72nd amendment.
  
• According to 73rd amendment out of the total number of seats to be filled by the direct elections for local self-governing bodies, 1/3rd have to be reserved for women.
  

National Institute Of Rural Development is an Indian Institute for research in rural development, located In Rajendranagar near Hyderabad.

In order to decentralize power and to make the policies available to the people of even remote areas government has introduced a three-tier system of local governing bodies in the rural areas.

The advantages of decentralization of power include:

• Reduces the burden on top executives
  
• Executive Development
  
• Better control and supervision.
  

Though decentralisation of powers through local self-governing bodies have been proved to be helpful in many ways it has following disadvantages

• Uniform policies not followed
  
• Problem of Co-Ordination
  
• Conflict among different governing bodies and also within 
  

The Community Development Programme was started in India just after independence (1952). It was a multi-project programme, with the aim of an overall development of rural people. This programme consisted of agriculture, animal husbandry, irrigation, cooperation, public health, education, social education, communication, village industries etc.