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_bPAR-E
100 1 _aParameswaran, M.P
245 1 0 _aEmpowering people :
_binsights from a local experiment in participatory planning /
_cM.P. Parameswaran.
260 _aDelhi :
_bDaanish Books,
_c2005.
300 _a208 p. :
440 0 _aStudies in local-level development ;
520 _aThe 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.
650 0 _aRural development
_zIndia
_zKerala
_xCitizen participation.
710 2 _aKerala Research Programme on Local Level Development.
710 2 _aCentre for Development Studies (Trivandrum, India)
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_cBK