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Decentralisation: A constitutional mandate or rhetoric? [1]

The implementation of decentralisation reform as embodied in the 73rd and 74th amendments of the Constitution has suffered from complete negligence. The two recent articles by Oommen and Sivaramakrishnan have highlighted the inexplicable attitudes of the finance commissions and the judiciary towards decentralisation.

Publication Date: 
17/09/2010
Buddhadeb Ghosh [2]
Economic and Political Weekly [3]
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Political Decentralisation [4], Finance [5], Governance [6], Governance And Institutions [7], Municipal Bodies [8], Panchayats [9]
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