Village Forums or Development Councils: People’s participation in decision-making in rural West Bengal, India

The policy shift towards decentralisation promises important social change in rural India, providing as it does a three-tier system of local self-governments, the Panchayats: at the village level, the district level, and an intermediate level between the two, called the Block Panchayat. There is evi...

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Main Authors: Raghabendra Chattopadhyay, Bhaskar Chakrabarti, Suman Nath
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: UTS ePRESS 2010-03-01
Series:Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance
Online Access:https://learning-analytics.info/journals/index.php/cjlg/article/view/1490