Balwant Rai Mehta Committee-
Panchayatiraj
In 1957, Government of India appointed a committee to examine
community development program and national extension service of 1953 and to
suggest measures for development.
Committee has submitted its report in 1957 itself and suggested
Democratic Decentralisation which later on turned out to be
Panchayatiraj sytem.
Some Recommendations:
1.
A
three tier system has to be formed at village level with gram panchayat at village
level, panchayat samiti(executive body) and Zila Parishad(Advisory Body- with
collector as its chairman)
2.
Direct
elections for gram panchayat and indirect elections for the other two bodies
3.
Planning
and development activities should be entrusted to these bodies.
4.
There
should be genuine transfer of power and responsibility to these bodies to
enable them to discharge their duties effectively.
5.
A
system should be put in place for further devolution of authority in the state.
Constitutional status was not suggested by the committee as
done by Ashok Mehta Committee later on.
The recommendations of the committee were accepted by the
National Development Council and it did not insist on single rigid pattern and
left it to the states to evolve their own patterns based other local conditions
following basic principles and broad fundamentals throughout the country.
States like Rajasthan in Nagpur district adopted their
recommendations first in the country followed by Andhra Pradesh
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