Although the decentralised approach for governance and development had gained wide recognition in India even before independence, it was only as late as in 1992 that this approach got the much needed constitutional recognition with the enactment of the 73
The People%u2019s Plan Campaign that brought both bouquets and brickbats to the Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Democratic Front in Kerala was re-launched yesterday.
Kerala is preparing to launch a new People's Plan programme similar to the one started in 1996 that decentralised the planning process, said the state's Local Self Government Minister Paloly Mohammed Kutty Tuesday.
The much-hyped Peoples' Planning Campaign implemented by the 1996-2001 Left Democratic Front (LDF) government in Kerala failed to achieve its goal of ensuring participation of local bodies in plan programmes, a recent study by the state Planning Board ha
