Financial Management of Panchayati Raj System

Contents List of contributors. 1. Introductory note/M.R. Biju. 2. Resource mobilization of local governments in India a central finance commission approach/O.P. Bohra. 3. State finance commissions their role and impact on local government finances the case of Karnataka/M. Devendra Babu. 4. Status of Gram Panchayats finances a micro study in Karnataka/B.S. Bhargava and K. Subha. 5. Finances of Panchayati Raj Institutions a study in Andhra Pradesh/E.A. Narayana. 6. Management of finance in local bodies a case study of Kolathupalayam Panchayat in Tamil Nadu/M. Soundarapandian and K. Srividya Gayathri. 7. Decentralized planning in India an evaluation of the experience of the strategy of decentralization for manpower planning and employment generation/M.A. Sreenivas. 8. Decentralized village health planning in North India role of Panchayati Raj Institutions/Shankar Prinja Sunder Lal Amarjeet Singh and Ramesh Verma. 9. Local government finance in Kerala/K. Rajasekharan. 10. Impact of economic reforms on poor in rural India a study of Andhra Pradesh/A.R. Reddy. 11. Finances of Panchayati Raj institutions in India emerging trends and challenges/M.R. Biju. 12. Panchayat finance in India a study on Orissa Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (OREGS)/Sudhansu Sekhar Nayak. 13. Economic reforms self help groups and development of tribal women a study of Kandhamal District in Orissa/Govinda Chandra Panda. 14. Financial performance of rural development banks an analysis/K. Prabakkar Rajkumar. 15. Growth or regional rural banks in India/A. Subbiah and M. Selvakumar. 16. Unravelling the institutional maze understanding the role of the state in Indian agribusiness/Manoj T. Thomas. 17. Finances of Panchayati Raj Institutions in Andhra Pradesh/H.D. Dwarakanath. Index. The process of strengthening of local governments is welcome step accepted by all sections of the society. The government has implemented the 73rd and 74th Constitutional Amendment Act (CAA) for strengthening the grassroots level of governments in rural as well as urban areas. But the functioning of the PRIs in India during the last one and a half decade shows that the state governments have not made serious or sincere attempts to endow the Panchayats with adequate functional responsibilities powers and access to productive resources. Moreover resource inadequacy coupled with lack of appropriate functional responsibilities and powers hade made these bodies extremely weak. With their meagre revenue base and unimpressive revenue administration the PRIs are constrained to lead a miserable existence. Against this backdrop this anthology critical analysis of various aspects of the subject and makes valuable suggestions for revamping the finances of the PRIs in India. 334 pp.