Vijay's Vision

                        (This Paper was accepted for presentation in the University of Mysore)                                                               (ABSTRACT)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         -*Dr. S Vijay Kumar        According to the census of India 2011, our urban population is 37.7 crore (31.16%). Historically, there has been almost three times growth since 1901 when India’s urban population was only 10.8% of its total population. However, this proportion of urban population is far less than that in many developing and developed countries. As per World Bank and census data: Japan (91.2%), Brazil (84.6%), UK (81.6%), US (80.9%), France (78.6%), Germany (74.5%), Russia (73.77%) and China (50.6%). Thus, the fact is that India still remains predominantly a rural nation

  -Dr. S. Vijay Kumar        Local Governments or local bodies are institutions of the local self-governance, which look after the administration of an area or small community such as villages, towns or cities. The Local bodies in India are broadly classified into two categories. The local bodies constituted for local planning, development and administration in the rural areas are referred as Rural Local Bodies known as Panchayats and the local bodies, which are constituted for local planning, development and administration in the urban areas are referred as Urban Local Bodies, known as Municipalities. Mahatma Gandhi advocated Panchayati Raj as the foundation of India's political system, his term for such a vision was "Gram Swaraj" or “Village Self-governance” , a decentralized form of government in which each village would be responsible for its own affairs. Instead, India developed a highly centralized form of government. However, this has been moderated by the dele