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- District Rural Development Agency (DRDA) has traditionally been the principal organ at the District level to oversee the implementation of the anti-poverty programmes of the Ministry of Rural Development. Created originally for implementation of Integrated Rural Development Programme (IRDP), the DRDAs were subsequently entrusted with a number of programmes, both of the Central and State Governments. Since inception, the administrative costs of the DRDA (District Rural Development Agency) were met by setting aside a part of the allocations for each programme. Of late, the number of programmes had increased and several programmes have been restructured with a view to making them more effective. While an indicative staffing structure was provided to the DRDAs, experience showed that there was no uniformity in the staffing structure. It is in this context that a new centrally sponsored scheme - DRDA Administration - has been introduced from 1st April, 1999 based on the recommendations of an inter-ministerial committee known as Shankar Committee. The new scheme replaces the earlier practice of allocating percentage of programme funds to the administrative costs.
- Panchayat /s In India : The district
is the principal subdivision within the state (union territories are not
subdivided). There are 476 districts in India; the districts vary in size and
population. The average size of a
district is approximately 4,300 square kilometers, and the average population
numbered nearly 1.8 million in the early 1990s. The district collector, a member
of the Indian Administrative Service, is the preeminent official in the district
(see The Civil Service, this ch.). During
the colonial period, the collector was
responsible for collecting revenue and
maintaining law and order. In the 1990s, the collector's role in most states is
confined to heading the district revenue department and coordinating the efforts
of the other departments, such as agriculture, irrigation, public works,
forestry, and public health, that are responsible for promoting economic
development and social welfare.
Districts in India are subdivided into taluqs or tehsils ,
areas that contain from 200 to 600 villages.
The taluqdar or tehsildar , who serves in much the same
capacity as the collector, is the chief member of the taluq revenue
department and is the preeminent official at this level. Economic development
and social welfare departments are also likely to have offices at the taluq
level. Although the revenue department may have village representatives,
generally known as patwaris (village record-keepers), to maintain land
records, the development and welfare departments generally do not have offices
below the taluq level.
Article 40 of the constitution directs the government to establish
panchayats to serve as institutions of local self-government. Most states
began implementing this Directive Principle along the lines of the
recommendations of the government's Balwantrai Mehta Commission report.
According to these recommendations, the popularly elected village council (gram
panchayat ) is the basic unit. Village council
chairs, elected by the members of the
village council, serve as members of the block council (panchayat samiti
). A block is a large subunit of a district. In some states, blocks are
coterminous with taluqs or tehsils . In other states,
taluqs or tehsils are divided into blocks. The district council (zilla
parishad ) is the top level of the system. Its jurisdiction includes all
village and block councils within a district. Its membership includes the block
council chairs.
Deficient in funds and authority, the panchayats in most states were
largely inactive until the late 1970s. However, efforts were then initiated to
reinvigorate the panchayats . West Bengal led the way by transferring
substantial funds and authority over rural development projects to the
panchayats and then holding popular elections for panchayat
representatives at all three levels in which political parties were allowed to
field candidates for the first time. In the mid-1980s, the state of Karnataka
also made important efforts to revive the panchayats .
In 1989 Rajiv Gandhi's
government took two major initiatives designed to enhance the panchayats'
role in local government and economic development. It initiated the Jawahar
Employment Plan (Jawahar Rozgar Yojana), which provided funding directly to
village councils to create jobs for the unemployed through public works
projects. Rajiv Gandhi's government also proposed the Sixty-fourth Amendment
Bill to make it mandatory for all states to establish a three-tiered (village,
block, and district) system of panchayats in which representatives
would be directly elected for five-year terms. Panchayats were to be
given expanded authority and funding over local development efforts. Despite the
popular appeal of transferring power to panchayats , the Sixty-fourth
Amendment Bill was rejected by the Rajya Sabha. Its hasty introduction in an
election year made it appear to be a popular gimmick. Opposition to the bill
also arose from those who feared that the transfer of authority from state
governments to panchayats was designed to reduce the power of state
legislatures under opposition control and promote "greater centralization
through decentralization" by enabling the central government to establish direct
relations with panchayats .
On December 22, 1992, the Congress (I) government passed the Seventy-third
Amendment, which gave panchayats constitutional status (previously
panchayat matters were considered a state subject). The amendment also
institutionalized a three-tiered system of panchayats (except for
states with a population of less than 2 million), with panchayats at
the village, block, and district levels. The amendment also stipulated that all
panchayat members be elected for five-year terms in elections
supervised by state election commissions.
The 26 percent of the
Indias
population living in urban areas are governed by municipal corporations and
municipal councils. The municipal corporations governing the larger cities are
composed of elected councils and a president or mayor elected from within the
council. The state governor appoints a commissioner who acts as the chief
executive of the municipal corporation. The municipal councils administering the
smaller cities have elected committees or boards. The municipal government is
responsible for education, health, sanitation, safety, and maintaining roads and
other public facilities. The country's municipal governments have long been
troubled, in part because of their limited authority and lack of funds. The
frequent intervention of state governments to suspend the activities of
municipal administrations has also undermined them. For instance, state or union
territory governments suspended the elected bodies of forty-four out of
sixty-six municipal corporations in 1986. The Seventy-fourth Amendment was
passed in December 1992 in order to revive municipal governments. Among other
things, it mandates that elections for municipal bodies must be held within six
months of the date of their dissolution. The amendment also provides for
financial review of the municipalities in order to enable recommendations
concerning the distribution of proceeds from taxes, duties, tolls, and fees.
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What is NREGA ?
- The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) is now seven months old. It guarantees 100 days of employment in a financial year to every rural household whose adult members are willing to do unskilled manual work. The Act, launched in February 2006, has come into force in 200 districts of the country
What is MG NREGA ?
- The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) is now call Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MG NREGA)
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Contact Information
Telephone
+91 6532
FAX
+91 6532 203-555-1212
Postal address
Block Development Officer , Giridih Block ,, Giridih
Electronic mail
General Information: bdogiridih@drdagiridih.in
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