Some Successful Panchayats - Case Studies

Abstract

From Preface: The volume presents nine studies of more or less successful panchayats. The institutions were selected on the basis of some broad criteria. These are that they should have been in existence for a reasonably long period of time, have shown a capacity to increase their revenue resources, carry out municipal functions and build up assets, should have been able to evolve popular participation, and have, by and large, functioned democratically and under fairly normal circumstances. Each study is divided into three parts, viz. the background information about the village or villages covered by the institution, the formation of the institution and its growth, and the factors which have contributed broadly to its successful working. A summary knitting together the main findings of these case studies has already been issued as Chapter IV of the Seventh Evaluation Report of the P.E.O. (Publication No. 32). The full report on each of the nine selected panchayats is given in this volume along with a brief introduction.