Local governance in India: decentralization and beyond/
edited by Niraja Gopal Jayal, Amit Prakash and Pradeep K. Sharma
- New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2008.
- xiii, 426 p. ; 23 cm.
- (Oxford India paperbacks) .
1. Introduction / Niraja Gopala Jayal -- 2. Selection by custom and election by statute : interfaces in local governance in Karnataka / Kripa Ananth Pur -- 3. Van Panchayats in Uttaranchal / Ashok Kumar -- 4. Writers' building and the reality of decentralized rural power : some paradoxes and reversals in West Bengal / Dwaipayan Bhattacharyya -- 5. Panchayats, bureaucracy, and poverty alleviation in Uttar Pradesh / Ravi S. Srivastava -- 6. Decentralization and disease control programmes : the case of filariasis / Rama V. Baru and Meena Gopal -- 7. The new segregation in primary education : implications for local governance / Vimala Ramachandra and Aarti Saihjee -- 8. Crisis of governance and people's alternatives : schooling system in some villages of Western UP / Jagpal Singh -- 9. People-centred development and participatory urban governance : the Mumbai experience / Marina R. Pinto -- 10. Urban futures of poor groups in Chennai and Bangalore : how these are shaped by the relationships between parastatals and local bodies / Solomon Benjamin and R. Bhuvaneswari -- 11. Developing a quantitative framework for determining devolution of funds from the state government to local bodies / Ajit Karnik, Abhay Pethe and Dilip Karmarkar -- 12. Urban local bodies and district administration : an empirical examination of some issues relating to urban water supply in Karnataka / K.P. Krishnan -- 13. Mainstreaming gender in district plants in Madhya Pradesh / Anwar Jafri and Vikas Singh -- 14. Accountability in local governance : infrastructure development in the industrial townships of Faridabad and Gurgaon / Amita Singh -- 15. Transparency, accountability, and governance : local government in Kerala and Karnataka / V. Vijayalakshmi -- 16. The salience of poverty, participation, transparency, and security in good urban governance / Rama Nath Jha.
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