✏️ DEMOCRATIC DECENTRALISATION IN URBAN AREAS
🔶 India, like many other developing countries, has been experiencing rapid growth in recent decades. India’s urban population, which was hardly 10 percent at the beginning of the 20th century, reached 26 percent in nine decades.
🔶 Municipal bodies like the panchayats are not functioning effectively as units of local government due to structural, functional and financial constraints.
🔶 From time to time many committees and commissions are appointed to suggest measures to revitalize them. Almost all committees recommended strengthening the Urban Local Bodies (ULBs).
🔶 To strengthen urban governance, parliament enacted 74th Constitutional Amendment Act 1992. This Act provided constitutional recognition is a milestone in the history of Urban Local Bodies.
🔶 India, like many other developing countries, has been experiencing rapid growth in recent decades. India’s urban population, which was hardly 10 percent at the beginning of the 20th century, reached 26 percent in nine decades.
🔶 Municipal bodies like the panchayats are not functioning effectively as units of local government due to structural, functional and financial constraints.
🔶 From time to time many committees and commissions are appointed to suggest measures to revitalize them. Almost all committees recommended strengthening the Urban Local Bodies (ULBs).
🔶 To strengthen urban governance, parliament enacted 74th Constitutional Amendment Act 1992. This Act provided constitutional recognition is a milestone in the history of Urban Local Bodies.
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