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Empowering people : insights from a local experiment in participatory planning / M.P. Parameswaran.

By: Parameswaran, M.P.
Contributor(s): Kerala Research Programme on Local Level Development | Centre for Development Studies (Trivandrum, India).
Series: Studies in local-level development. Publisher: Delhi : Daanish Books, 2005Description: 208 p.ISBN: 8190294644 (Hardbound); 8190294652 (pbk.).Subject(s): Rural development -- India -- Kerala -- Citizen participationDDC classification: 320.8095483 Summary: The 73rd and 74th Amendments of the constitution of India opened up new opportunities for devolution of powers to Panchayati Raj institutions. Kerala attempted a novel programme of the `Peoples Plan Campaign` in 1996. A few months prior to this, the integrated rural technology centre, a research wing of the Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad initiated an Action Research Programme in five panchayats to evolve a set of models of participatory planning for sustainable development and to create microlevel organisational structures to carry out them.
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The 73rd and 74th Amendments of the constitution of India opened up new opportunities for devolution of powers to Panchayati Raj institutions. Kerala attempted a novel programme of the `Peoples Plan Campaign` in 1996. A few months prior to this, the integrated rural technology centre, a research wing of the Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad initiated an Action Research Programme in five panchayats to evolve a set of models of participatory planning for sustainable development and to create microlevel organisational structures to carry out them.

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