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more resource oriented and in a way more powerful. It’s very pressing because
of what seeming political trade off. Every political party is promising more
resources and power to the local government, knowing that in the next election,
local government functionalist can be of certain evidence to them. So, this new
scenario is also emerging, but local governments counted to be an important
part of decentralization, now democratization. Thank you.
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Does federalism lead to democratization? I think so, especially when you
think about the three structures that we have in India: the center, the state,
and local government. And the democratic aspect of this, the fact that there
are elections all the time. Each of these levels ensures that people, even at the
village level, are participating in the electoral process, and therefore, one of the
crucial sort of reinforcements is that I am getting to make decisions about my
future and my neighborhood. That is fulfilled. And if you ask any Indian villager,
they will tell you that democracy is probably invented in India. That’s how
they’re grown up with the fact that they do get to take active role in changing
their lives and their future. There was also a huge social engineering agenda.
Indian villagers are very, very feudal and backward historically and very
hierarchical. And, what the democratic process does is, it may say that, this
year, a woman from the former untouchable community only can be elected as
president of that village council. So, it breaks all other barriers that would have
been very, very difficult to break if you have not implores these kinds of
challenges. And so, in another way, those who were historically excluded…
anyway… the softer intangible side of being part of democracy. That is taken
care of. Lots of fun argues as well, and that helps people feel that they can
make decisions about their own priorities, projects. But, if you look at the
actual working, you will see that those who are the higher levels, the member
of parliament and the state legislature, do our best to keep the local bodies
from becoming too powerful. If somebody is elected for five-year term, we will
ensure that three people compete for it and they will be given 2 or 3 twenty
month time. Before they know what’s going on, they have to yield to somebody
else, whenever there is competition, coming from there.
So, the way it actually works in practice is a little different, but historically
we also have other institutions like the finance commission and the planning
commission, which have ensured that the backward regions do get more
resources. And, so, there’s always the sense that the job of the government is ²£ ´£²¢¡¸¡¡Á¥°£°ª²£l²h²£°À¨
to be inclusive, to be affirmative and ensure that anybody falling behind is
given a chance to catch up and move forward. Thank you.
