Bureaucracy and Rural Development in Mizoram

Bureaucracy is the dependable machinery all over the world including India through which the states implement development programmes. In fact, bureaucracy is an integral part of the execution of rural development process in India. However, the failure of bureaucracy to enthuse people's participation and successful implementation led to decentralization of authority and power to local self-governing institutions-the PRIs to have the entire charge of developmental works. While rural development programmes are now implemented with the coordination of 'rural bureaucracy and PRIs', in case of Mizoram, since PRIs not introduced (exempted from 73rd Constitutional Amendment Act) and the existing Village Councils not viable as PRIs.