Exercises · Q8
Q.Which of the following involve decentralisation: holding Gram Panchayat election / villagers deciding useful policies themselves / power to call Gram Sabha meeting / Gram Panchayat receiving BDO progress report?
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Start your 14-day free trial to unlock the full solution →Of the four options, villagers deciding their own policies and the power to call a Gram Sabha meeting are genuine acts of decentralisation; holding an election is a necessary precondition rather than decentralisation itself, and receiving a report from a government officer is not decentralisation at all.
Decentralisation, in the sense the chapter uses it, means real decision-making power being exercised at the local level, by local people, rather than remaining with a distant authority. Testing each option against this:
- Holding a Gram Panchayat election creates the elected body that decentralisation requires to exist, but the act of holding an election is not itself an exercise of local decision-making power — it is the necessary machinery, or precondition, that makes later decentralisation possible, not decentralisation in action.
- Villagers themselves deciding what policies and programmes are useful for the village is decentralisation in its clearest form: it is local people directly exercising decision-making power over their own affairs.
- The power to call a Gram Sabha meeting is also a genuine decentralised power — it is the ability to initiate local deliberation and decision-making, exercised at the village level rather than by a higher authority. …
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