Urban Local Self-Government In India

Urban Local Self-Government In India
Author: Ram Narayan Prasad
Publisher: Mittal Publications
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Representative government and representation
ISBN: 9788183241304

Arvind Kumar Sharma, b. 1941, scholar of public administration.

Local Government in India

Local Government in India
Author: Pradeep Sachdeva
Publisher: Pearson Education India
Total Pages: 415
Release: 2011
Genre: India
ISBN: 8131799239

Local Government in India provides an insight into the system of urban local governance in India and traces its evolution since independence. Urban governments are the organs for promoting grass root democracy and providing not only civic services for the welfare of the local people but also for carrying out the task of urban development and planning. This book tries to analyze their role and existence in the face of rapid urbanization, population growth and industrialization.

Urban Poverty, Local Governance and Everyday Politics in Mumbai

Urban Poverty, Local Governance and Everyday Politics in Mumbai
Author: Joop de Wit
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2016-10-04
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1315462168

This book explores the informal patronage relations between urban slum-dwellers and service delivery organisations in Mumbai, India. It examines to what extent the people in the slums are subject to social and political exclusion. Delving into the roles of the slum-based mediators and local municipal councillors, it highlights the problems in the functioning of democracy at the ground level, as election candidates target vote banks with freebies and private sector funding to manage campaigns. It provides a comprehensive overview of the various actors within local municipal governance and democracy as also consequences for citizenship, urban poverty, public services and neo-liberal politics.

Cities Transformed

Cities Transformed
Author: Mark R. Montgomery
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 553
Release: 2013-10-31
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1134031661

Over the next 20 years, most low-income countries will, for the first time, become more urban than rural. Understanding demographic trends in the cities of the developing world is critical to those countries - their societies, economies, and environments. The benefits from urbanization cannot be overlooked, but the speed and sheer scale of this transformation presents many challenges. In this uniquely thorough and authoritative volume, 16 of the world's leading scholars on urban population and development have worked together to produce the most comprehensive and detailed analysis of the changes taking place in cities and their implications and impacts. They focus on population dynamics, social and economic differentiation, fertility and reproductive health, mortality and morbidity, labor force, and urban governance. As many national governments decentralize and devolve their functions, the nature of urban management and governance is undergoing fundamental transformation, with programs in poverty alleviation, health, education, and public services increasingly being deposited in the hands of untested municipal and regional governments. Cities Transformed identifies a new class of policy maker emerging to take up the growing responsibilities. Drawing from a wide variety of data sources, many of them previously inaccessible, this essential text will become the benchmark for all involved in city-level research, policy, planning, and investment decisions. The National Research Council is a private, non-profit institution based in Washington, DC, providing services to the US government, the public, and the scientific and engineering communities. The editors are members of the Council's Panel on Urban Population Dynamics.

Local Governance in India

Local Governance in India
Author: Niraja Gopal Jayal
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2006
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

Contributed research papers presented at a workshop organised by Centre for the Study of Law and Governance at Jawaharlal Nehru University in collaboration with the UNDP and UN-Habitat in April 2002.

Local Governments and the Public Health Delivery System in Kerala

Local Governments and the Public Health Delivery System in Kerala
Author: Megha Jacob
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2016-09-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 1443812994

This book discusses the significance of local governments in public healthcare systems in developing countries, particularly India. It considers a new model of public health delivery system in the Indian state of Kerala, which is unique in achieving a fairly high level of human and social development with a relatively low level of economic development. Unlike most Indian states, Kerala has devolved the control of health service management to local governments, though the state government still has administrative powers, resulting in a system of dual responsibilities. Transfer of public health control from state government to local governments has seen an increase in the participation of the local community in public health delivery management. Based on a field study conducted in Keralan districts, this book explains the scope for mobilising local resources for the implementation of public health projects under local government, discussing a unique model of co-production between the government and civil society that can improve health services, efficiency and equity, leading to better health outcomes. As such, this study will be of interest to scholars and practitioners in the areas of health, local governance and decentralised planning.

Local Democracy and Development

Local Democracy and Development
Author: T. M. Thomas Isaac
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2002
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780742516076

In this definitive history, a key figure in the People's Campaign in Kerala provides a unique insider's account of one of the world's most extensive and successful experiments in decentralization. Launched in 1996, the campaign mobilized over 3 million of Kerala's 30 million people and resulted in bottom-up development planning in all 1,052 of its villages and urban neighborhoods. The authors tell a powerful story of mass mobilization and innovation as bureaucratic opposition was overcome, corruption and cynicism were rooted out, and parliamentary democracy prevailed. Considering both the theoretical and applied significance of the campaign in the context both of India's development since independence and of recent international debates about decentralization, civil society, and empowerment, the book provides invaluable lessons for sustainable development worldwide.

Governing Locally

Governing Locally
Author: Babu Jacob
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2022-02-03
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1108832342

Studies how habits of governance create institutional rigidities that dislodge law-given local autonomy to improve urban public services.