It is important to improve economic democracy at the local government level to deliver local public service delivery effectively. Discuss (200 Words)
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KEY POINTS
· Decentralisation has long been recognised as an efficient instrument for promoting economic democracy, and delivering services to meet the needs of people.
· Fertiliser subsidies, for example, benefit richer regions much more than poorer regions. There is a great deal of room for creating a level-playing field between leading and lagging regions through fiscal decentralisation.
· As with fiscal decentralisation, the extent of administrative decentralisation varies across different services. There is considerable variation in whether execution and supervision are both decentralised.
· For instance, India has devolved the execution of most education programmes to the sub-national level, but supervision in many cases is retained at the national level.
· Fiscal transfers would benefit from more explicit rules, greater transparency, and ensuring that interstate transfers do not act as a disincentive for fiscal responsibility by sub-national governments.
· More fiscal resources are needed to support rural structural transformation. Under the present arrangement, panchayats make no contribution to the design of the schemes and are given little discretion in implementation.
· They also have limited autonomy over their staff. The expenditure assignments need to be spelled out in detail so that this results in local governments having autonomy and sufficient resources to provide meaningful services to their communities.
Soni Kumari 3 years
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Susmitha T 3 years
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K. V. A 3 years
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