Tamil Nadu bags third spot in panchayat devolution index
1 month, 1 week ago

Tamil Nadu bags third spot in panchayat devolution index

The Hindu  

Tamil Nadu has been ranked third at the all-India level under the Panchayat Devolution Index. Apart from the overall PDI, Tamil Nadu has the highest score at the national level with 60.24 with regard to the dimension of “functions,” one of the six dimensions scrutinised to assess the performance of 28 States and seven Union Territories.. In Tamil Nadu, there are 12,525 village panchayats, 388 panchayat unions and 37 district panchayats, of which the term of office of elected representatives for 9,624 village panchayats, 314 panchayat unions, and 28 district panchayats expired on January 5. According to the IIPA’s study, the panchayats in Tamil Nadu have the “highest level of engagement” in Central and State schemes in comparison to their counterparts. In the dimension of ‘capacity enhancement’, the State’s performance has been rated as “good” with regard to assessing the need and conducting training for representatives and officials of the panchayats.

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Karnataka tops in Devolution Index ranking of Panchayat Raj system
1 month, 1 week ago

Karnataka tops in Devolution Index ranking of Panchayat Raj system

The Hindu  

: Karnataka tops the overall Devolution Index ranking of the Panchayat Raj system among States in India, while Kerala and Tamil Nadu are in the second and third spot, respectively. Overall The report notes that Karnataka ranks first with an overall index score of 72.23 followed by Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and Maharashtra. Six key dimensions In the framework criterion, Kerala …

Tamil Nadu: No fund since Feb, panchayats unable to make ends meet
10 months, 1 week ago

Tamil Nadu: No fund since Feb, panchayats unable to make ends meet

New Indian Express  

COIMBATORE: Grassroots level administration in the state has taken a hit as the department of rural administration has not released funds due to panchayats since February, allegedly due to technical issues, making it difficult for the local bodies to meet day-to-day expenditure. P Ponniah, director of the rural development and Panchayat Raj, said, “Due to some technical issues, funds could …

Higher autonomy of panchayats leads to better health outcomes in rural India: Data
1 year, 1 month ago

Higher autonomy of panchayats leads to better health outcomes in rural India: Data

The Hindu  

The Data Point published on February 5, had highlighted how panchayats earn only 1% of their income through taxes, with the rest being sourced from Central and State grants. The RBI study uses two datasets to show that panchayats which scored high on the health, nutrition, and sanitation parameters also had lower rural IMRs. Given that panchayats play a vital …

Panchayats in India earn only 1% of their revenue through taxes
1 year, 1 month ago

Panchayats in India earn only 1% of their revenue through taxes

The Hindu  

Only 1% of the revenue of panchayats was earned by them, with the rest being raised as grants from the State and the Centre, show data. Click to remove AMP mode Panchayats also earned ₹1,494 crore through non-tax revenue, which is mostly earnings from interest payments and Panchayati Raj programmes. Chart 2 | The chart shows the average revenue per …

Village panchayats will not merge with urban local bodies: Tamil Nadu minister
1 year, 2 months ago

Village panchayats will not merge with urban local bodies: Tamil Nadu minister

New Indian Express  

As per a government press release, 20 representatives of village panchayats met with Thangaraj in the presence of Collector P N Sridhar and urged the minister to give up the proposed merger of village panchayats with urban local bodies. "Kanniyakumari is a district with the least number of village panchayats, after Chennai and Nilgiris, in the state that includes 12,525 …

Number theory: Three decades of India’s decentralisation venture
1 year, 11 months ago

Number theory: Three decades of India’s decentralisation venture

Hindustan Times  

A complete understanding of decentralisation in India must engage with the question of who is getting elected to office and what hinders the capacity of the local bodies to carry out the tasks entrusted to them. To be sure, difference in population per representative unit is also observed at the level of Lok Sabha and state legislatures, with northern states …

CNN-News18 Town Hall: 'Tamil Nadu has shaped India's future, Dravidian model of governance hailed,' says MK Stalin
2 years, 5 months ago

CNN-News18 Town Hall: 'Tamil Nadu has shaped India's future, Dravidian model of governance hailed,' says MK Stalin

Firstpost  

‘Tamil Nadu is the first state to bring law against caste discrimination. In poverty parameters, Tamil Nadu’s is the lowest among all states,’ Stalin said at the event The Dravidian model of governance believes in India’s growth, and Tamil Nadu has shaped the future of the country, said chief minister MK Stalin at the CNN-News18 Town Hall in Chennai on …

Stronger at the grassroots
3 years, 5 months ago

Stronger at the grassroots

The Hindu  

The Panchayati Raj, first adopted by Nagaur in Rajasthan on October 2, 1959, has expanded vastly. The People’s Plan Campaign and Vibrant Gram Sabha Dashboard, rolled out this year, aspire to strengthen the Panchayati Raj system by making gram sabhas more vibrant. When the traditional top-down disaster response system was compromised during the bad months of the pandemic, it was …

Kerala: Power to panchayats
5 years, 1 month ago

Kerala: Power to panchayats

The Hindu  

Kerala was the best performer in devolving power and resources to panchayats, Uttar Pradesh cornered the lion’s share of all grants to panchayati raj institutions over the past five years, and the gap between allocation and release of finance commission grants to PRIs has been steadily widening, according to a document of basic statistics on PRIs released by the Ministry …

Economic Survey 2018 reveals low tax collections at panchayat level are challenge to fiscal federalism
7 years, 1 month ago

Economic Survey 2018 reveals low tax collections at panchayat level are challenge to fiscal federalism

Firstpost  

New Delhi: Tax collections at panchayat level are extremely low, which is posing a challenge to fiscal federalism and accountability, the Economic Survey said on Monday. Low level of tax collections by local governments in rural areas is posing challenge in reconciling fiscal federalism and accountability, the Economic Survey 2017-18 tabled by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in Parliament said. “This …

A drubbing for the Congress, BJP
13 years, 5 months ago

A drubbing for the Congress, BJP

The Hindu  

While both the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party, the major national parties, suffered a drubbing in the local body elections in Tamil Nadu, BJP can feel comparatively better off because it could at least secure chairmanship of two municipalities — Nagercoil and Mettupalayam. Congress sources, requesting anonymity, admit that even the mayorship of two corporations — Tiruchi and Coimbatore …

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