The Concerned for Working Children

Paving the way for Karnataka’s Gram Swaraj

Posted on November 11, 2014

Karnataka Panchayat Raj Amendment Committee with Karnataka Chief Minister, Siddaramaiah and H. K Patil – Minister for Rural Development and Panchayat Raj (Karnataka)

The Concerned for Working Children (CWC) welcomes the Report entitled ‘Path to Grama Swaraj’ being brought out by the Karnataka Panchayat Raj Amendment Committee. The State Government recognising the need for strengthening local self governance, under the leadership of Shri H K Patil, the Honourable Minister for Rural Development and Panchayat Raj, with the endorsement of the Chief Minister, Shri Siddaramaiah, had set up the Karnataka Panchayat Raj Amendment Committee with Shri K. R. Ramesh Kumar as Chairperson for the purpose of recommending amendments to the Karnataka Panchayat Raj Act, 1993. Nandana Reddy, Convenor of the Karnataka Grama Panchayat Hakkothaya Andolana also Director – Development of The Concerned for Working, is a member of the Core Committee.

The Committee has found that the Karnataka Panchayat Raj Act of 1993, has been made ineffective through multiple changes that have diluted the concept of decentralisation. The institutions have been reduced to play the part of ‘delivery agents’ of State and Central schemes. The Committee makes detailed and path breaking recommendations in this report in order to re-instate the spirit of Swaraj and the 73rd Amendment within the framework of the Constitution.

• Final Draft of the Karnataka Panchayat Raj Act (Amendment) Bill
• Unique Features of the Proposed Amendments to the Karnataka Panchayat Raj Act, 1993
• Salient Features of the Proposed Amendments to the Karnataka Panchayat Raj Act (1993)
• Final Report of the Committee
• Highlights of the Report
• Members of the Committee
• PRI Responsibility Map
• PRI Schedule
• Press coverage of the report submission in The Hindu publication
• Seminar on Karnataka Panchayat Raj Act Amendment Committee Report on 12 Nov 2014 

• Mani Shankar Aiyar (Former Union Minister of Panchayat Raj) remarks on the Karnataka Panchayat Raj Act Amendment Committee Report

   

Kannada

• Final Report – Kannada
  
• Highlights of the Report
• PRI Responsibility Map
• PRI Schedule

Salient Features of the Proposed Amendments to the Karnataka Panchayat Raj Act (1993)