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Decentralised Planning and Its Impact on Rural Development in Kerala State
Decentralization, in simple, terms that dispersion or distribution of functions and powers to lower levels. In the context of development, decentralization means the delegation of powers from a central authority to regional and local authorities. It implies transfer of decision- making powers from t...
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| 100 | |a Renu Krishnan.G, |9 22087 | ||
| 245 | |a Decentralised Planning and Its Impact on Rural Development in Kerala State | ||
| 260 | |c 2014 | ||
| 500 | |a Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Global Business, Economics, Finance and Social Sciences (GB14Chennai Conference) ISBN: 978-1-941505-14-4 Chennai, India 11-13 July 2014 | ||
| 520 | |a Decentralization, in simple, terms that dispersion or distribution of functions and powers to lower levels. In the context of development, decentralization means the delegation of powers from a central authority to regional and local authorities. It implies transfer of decision- making powers from the centre of an organization to sub-units (Stiglitz, 1994). Decentralization as an instrumental or value defined as the empowerment of the common people through the empowerment of the local bodies (Oommen, M.A., 2009). Thus, decentralized planning can be defined as a type of planning of local authorities and institutions to formulate, adopt, implement and administrate the plan without central control. More clearly, decentralized planning can be interpreted as “planning at below”.India has created a landmark through the 73 rd and 74 th Constitutional Amendment Acts, made the principle of “co-operative federalism”; the central and state governments transfer powers to and strengthen the local governments at the district, block and village levels. The significant factor of the India’s decentralization is three-tier system with 35-40 percent of the plan outlay devolved to Local Self-Government Institutions (LSGIs). In the light of the emphasis placed upon the decentralization in India, Kerala followed Constitutional Amendment Act of 1992, with a credibility of three-tier system of Panchayati Raj showed very clearly that decentralization demands major upgradation in Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs). In this context, decentralization is the linking factor for sector interventions with convergence approaches for sustainable development especially in the rural areas. The necessary pre- condition for decentralization is to correlate the financial devolution and effective participation to strengthen the PRIs. The central concern remains in this study is the resource transfers aspect of decentralized planning in Kerala, the machinery for decentralized planning, the nature and pattern of resources from the Local Self-Government Institutions (LSGIs). However, this study concentrates on the rural local bodies and in the rural development; the PRIs seem to have a vital role. Therefore, the issue attempted to identify, assesses the trends and pattern of plan expenditure of the local bodies, and assesses the performance of the plan expenditure.Thus, the first set consists of time series data of plan expenditure of rural local bodies for three Five-year Plan periods of 1996-97 to 2011-12. The secondary data collected from official documents and reports from various government offices. The second set consists of tables and graphs like trend analysis and percentage analysis. It draws an attention to the impact on rural development and accountability of the PRIs. Even though, the most astonishing fact that fiscal decentralization has completely ignored the uniform accounting system for PRIs. Within the framework of its design and objectives, the study offers the following conclusions and findings:Resource transfers to the PRIs: village, block and district panchayats are mostly in the form of grants-in-aid.The grants are tied to specific sectoral and components wise devolution.Given the above facts, the village panchayats has very little financial autonomy and less initiative in plan projects or rural development. Therefore, decentralized planning is to overcome, the existing system of resource transfers could be transformed by additional resource mobilization and transfers by the PRIs. Such changes would include the granting of more funds, by collecting tax and a general thrust towards financial and political autonomy for local bodies. | ||
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