Integrating the Third Tier in the Indian Federal System Two Decades
This book discusses the evolution of the third tier of the Indian federal system, with a focus on rural local governance (commonly known as Panchayati Raj) against the backdrop of important theoretical and empirical literature on the relevance and effecti
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atul sarma • debabani chakravarty
Integrating the Third Tier in the Indian Federal System
Atul Sarma • Debabani Chakravarty
Integrating the Third Tier in the Indian Federal System Two Decades of Rural Local Governance
Atul Sarma Dwarka, New Delhi, India
Debabani Chakravarty DEFT Advisory and Research Pvt. Ltd. New Delhi, India
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Acknowledgements
I undertook this study when I was an Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) National Fellow (2010–12). Due to the intervention of several other pressing academic commitments, the completion of the study was greatly delayed. The Institute for Human Development facilitated this study. I am grateful to Professor Alakh Narayan Sharma, Director, who ungrudgingly extended all help and support. Dr Debabani Chakravarty provided me with a lot of research support. Dr V. N. Alok, IIPA, was always available for discussion. He also p rovided me with much research material. Dr Manish Gupta, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), provided me with the books and journals I required. Dr Akhilesh Sharma was helpful in many ways. I offer my very sincere thanks to each of them. Several staff of Institute for Human Development (IHD), Ms Jyoti Girish, Ms Priyanka Tyagi, Ms Re
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